Campaign against Sultan Masudi Hazaras

Date	1505 C.E.
Location	Maidan Wardak Province part of Hazarajat, Afghanistan
Result	Successful operations against the Hazaras.

Belligerents

Timurids of Kabul

Sultan Masudi Hazaras

Commanders and leaders

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur

Campaigns of Babur

1st Samarkand 2nd Samarkand 3rd Samarkand Sar-e-Pul 4th Samarkand Akhsi Kabul Masudi Hazaras 1st India Qalat-e Ghilji 1st Turkomen Hazaras 2nd Turkomen Hazaras Ghilji 1st Kandahar 2nd Kandahar Eastern Afghanistan 2nd India Mohmand Mughal Rebellion Ab Darrah Kul Malek Ghazdewan Bajaur Pharwala Milwat Punjab Panipat Sambhal Bayana Gwalior Khanwa Chanderi Ghaghra

After the conquest of Kabul, Babur had imposed a large contribution of horses and sheep on the Sultan Masudi Hazaras and sent collectors to receive it. However, his collectors returned unsuccessful. The Hazaras refused to pay as they did not recognize Babur as their legitimate sovereign. Several times before they had been guilty of depredations on the roads of Ghazni and Gardez. Babur decided to subdue the Hazaras in what is now Maidan Wardak Province of Afghanistan.

Babur took the field for the purpose of falling on them by surprise and having advanced by way of Maidan Shar he cleared the pass of Nirkh District by night and by the time of Fajr prayers, fell upon the Hazaras in the territory of Chatu and defeated them. He then levied the taxes on them and returned by way of Sang Surakh. Jahangir Mirza II took leave to go to Ghazni while Babur returned to Kabul.

References

Baburnama - Autobiography of Mughal Emperor Babur
Tarikh-i-Rashidi - A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia

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