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.