महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

CHAPTER XIII.
WAR WITH BĀBUR. BATTLE OF KHANUĀ.
IN his expedition against Bābur, Sāngā
received assistance from an unexpected
quarter. After the fall of the Lodi
dynasty, the Afghan chiefs who exer-
cised supreme power in Hindustan became
apprehensive of losing their position of
influence and power, when they saw that,
unlike Timur, Bābur intended to stay in
India and found a kingdom on the ruins of
the Afghan power. They, therefore, com-
bined and began to devise means to drive
the Turks out of India. As, however,
Bābur held Delhi and Agra, the eastern
Afghans rallied round the standard of
Bābur Khan Lohani, whom they raised
to the throne of Behar under the
name of Sultan Muhammad Shah.¹ The
Western Afghan Confederacy, headed by
Nawab Hasan Khan of Mewat, who ruled
¹ Erskine's History of India, Vol. I, p. 443.
126.