the Sisodias invaded Marwar. The conflict between the two Rajput clans was the opportunity for the Nagaur that had been smarting under their dominance. the Sultans of Gujarat and Malwa fought Mewar for almost twenty years and were ultimately compelled to form an alliance against the strong Rajput state. With its two Rajput enemies simultaneously in trouble, Nagaur regained independence and its Sultans their former power, which was reflected in the internal politics of the neighbouring Delhi Sultanate. In 1451 the minister of the last Sayyid ruler Alam Shah invited Qiyam Khan Khokhar to seize Delhi and become Sultan. At the same time he sent a similar invitation to Bahlul Lodi, the Afghan governor of Sirhind. The latter, being closer to Delhi, reached first and established the Lodi dynasty, while the disappointed Qiyam Khan Khokhar retired with his army back to Nagaur. After his death in 1453, the succession to the Nagaur throne was disputed between the brothers Mujahid Khan Khokhar and Shams Khan Khokhar. Rana Kumbha, who had emerged victorious in the long war with the Sultan of Malwa and the Rathores, sent his army to aid Shams Khan Khokhar who was installed as the Sultan. As a price of his support, Kumbha demanded that a portion of the Nagaur fort be demolished, but this Shams Khan Khokhar would not do—instead, he formed a matrimonial alliance with Sultan Qutb-ud-din of Gujarat. In 1456 Rana Kumbha defeated the allied Muslim army and again captured Nagaur. On this occasion the great mosque at Nagaur, built by Firuz Khan Khokhar, was demolished by the Rajputs to signify Kumbha's displeasure against Shams Khan Khokhar and to impose the status of a vassal on him. For the next two years the Sultans of Gujarat ( Uncle of Shams Khan Khokhar) and Malwa formed an alliance to fight against Rana Kumbha, but by this time Mewar had again become the dominant power in North India—not the least because of a peace treaty with the Rathore clan. Rao Jodha, the head of the Rathore clan, had founded a new capital called Jodhpur and had recovered most of his other forts from the Sisodias. The war between the two clans was brought to an end in 1458 by a treaty. But this did not make Nagaur independent—rather its territory became food for the hungry and fast multiplying Rathore clan. Jodha's son Rao Bika, with a portion of