Complex sentence: In 1521, Meera's husband died in a battle.Rajputana had remained fiercely independent of the Delhi Sultanate, the Islamic regime that otherwise ruled Hindustan after the conquests of Timur, but in the early 1500s, the central Asian conqueror Babur laid claim to the Sultanate.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1521, Meera's husband, died in a battle.Rajputana had remained fiercely independent of the Delhi Sultanate, the Islamic regime that otherwise ruled Hindustan after the conquests of Timur. But in the early 1500s, the central Asian conqueror Babur laid claim to the Sultanate.