Editing Babur (section)

=== Battle of Chanderi ===
The [[Battle of Chanderi]] took place the year after the Battle of Khanwa. On receiving news that Rana Sanga had made preparations to renew the conflict with him, Babur decided to isolate the Rana by defeating one of his staunchest allies, [[Medini Rai]], who was the ruler of Malwa.<ref name="Lane-Poole">{{cite book |last=Lane-Poole |first=Stanley |author-link=Stanley Lane-Poole |year=1899 |title=Babar |url=https://archive.org/details/babar035008mbp |pages=182–83 |publisher=The Clarendon Press}}</ref><ref name="Chandra">{{cite book |last=Chandra |first=Satish |author-link=Satish Chandra (historian) |year=1999 |title=Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals |volume=2 |edition=1st |location=New Delhi |publisher=Har-Anand Publications |page=36 |oclc=36806798}}</ref>

Upon reaching Chanderi, on 20 January 1528,<ref name="Lane-Poole" /> Babur offered Shamsabad to Medini Rao in exchange for Chanderi as a peace overture, but the offer was rejected.<ref name="Chandra" /> The outer fortress of Chanderi was taken by Babur's army at night, and the next morning the upper fort was captured. Babur himself expressed surprise that the upper fort had fallen within an hour of the final assault.<ref name = "Lane-Poole" /> Seeing no hope of victory, Medini Rai organized a ''[[jauhar]]'', during which women and children within the fortress [[Self-immolation|immolated themselves]].<ref name="Lane-Poole"/><ref name="Chandra" /> A small number of soldiers also collected in Medini Rao's house and killed each other in collective suicide. This sacrifice does not seem to have impressed Babur, who did not express a word of admiration for the enemy in his autobiography.<ref name="Lane-Poole" />