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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 104.

104 MÀL IKA attacked Ran! Kûmbha of Chitor. Both sides claimed the victory, and the Rana erected the famous Tower of Victory, still standing in the fort, in honour of his success. Mahmàd was succeeded by his son, Ghiyas-ud-din (1475-1500). Having undergone much toil and anxiety during his father's lifetime, Ghiyas-ud-din soon handed over the reins of government to his son, Nasir-ud-din, and retired to his harem.: Nasir-ud-din (1500-1o) has left a reputation infamous for cruelty. He is said even to have poisoned his father, an act which roused such indignation in the emperor Jahangir that, when visiting Mandu in 1616, he had the king's remains taken out of the tomb and thrown into the Narbada. Nasir-ud-din was drowned in a tank in the Kaliadeli palace, near Ujjain, into which he had fallen in a drunken fit, no one daring or caring to pull him out. He was succeeded by Mahmad II (1510-3r). Of him the historian relates that he imagined that king- doms were ruled by the sword, and that he attempted to put this maxim into practice with dire results. Distrusting his own people, he introduced a Rajput, Medini Rai, into his State as minister. In 1517, scared by the increasing power of this man, he called in Sultan Muzaffar Shah of Gujarat to assist in his expulsion. Later on, in a fight with Medini Rai and Rana Sanga of Chitor, he was taken prisoner, but was magnanimously released. This, however, did not deter him from attacking the Ranâ's successor some years later, when he was again taken prisoner by the Rana's ally, Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, and put to death while attempting to escape. The Malwa dynasty thus came to an end, the kingdom being annexed to Gujarat (1531) In 1535 Humayiin attacked Bahadur Shah and drove him out of Malwa, defeating him successively at Mandasor and Mandu. During the rule of the Siiri .dynasty (1540-55), Malwâ was held by Sher Shah's right-hand man Shujaat Khan, known locally by the name of Shujawal Khan, the founder of Shujilpur, and on his death by his son Baz Bahadur, chiefly famous for his musical talent, and his romantic attach ment to the beautiful and accomplished Riipmati of Sarangpur. In 1562 Baz Bahadur was forced to submit to Akbar, and Malwa became a Mughal province, continuing so until the eighteenth century. Abul Fazl deals with the province at some length in the Ain-i-Akbari. The Sûbah varied considerably in extent at different times. In 1594 it contained twelve sarhdrs (districts), but in 1665 it had only nine. Màlwa possessed special importance from its position on the great Mughal route, along which armies marched from Delhi to the Deccan, the road passing by Dholpur, Gwalior, Narwar, Sironj, and Hindia.- Among the numerous governors of Malmâ during this period were prince. Murâd (1591), the first Nizam-ul-mulk (î71q), and Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur (1734).