Person · r. 1554 – 1555
Sikandar Shah Suri
Another nephew of Sher Shah Suri, he assumed the title of Sikandar Shah with the backing of Islam Shah's old nobles, defeated Ibrahim Shah Suri to take Agra and Delhi, and was formally enthroned there in 1554, only to be defeated by Humayun's general Bairam Khan and driven into Bengal, where he died soon after.
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- vol. II, p. 147 · read as page image
Ahmud Khan, having procured the aid of Heibut Khan and other chiefs, who had been created nobles by the late Sulim Shah, assumed the title of Sikundur Shah, and marching with ten or twelve thousand horse towards Agra, encamped at Kurra, within twenty miles of that city.
- vol. II, p. 152 · read as page image
Sikundur Soor, after having ascended the throne at Agra, in the year 962, made a magnificent festival, and calling together all his chiefs, spoke to them to this effect...
- vol. II, p. 153 · read as page image
was defeated and fled to the Sewalik mountains, from whence he was expelled and sought refuge in Bengal, where he assumed the reins of government, and shortly after died.