56 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
Imperial Court and in the Imperial campaigns. The Muham- 
madan chronicles are very deficient in such particulars and on 
the whole afford no basis for judging what the Rajput life 
under the Emperors of Delhi exactly waslike. The Rajasthani 
Chronicles draw before us a picture of the Rajput life under the 
Emperors, and at the same time also of the Imperial life as 
seen through Rajput spectacles. The difficulties in which t 
Rajput Princes must have found themselves on more than one 
occasion when the Empire was rent by internal dissensions 
and rebellions, are well exemplified by the two extracts quoted 
below. In extract 6, raja Stra Singha of Bikaner, summoned 
by Jahangir on one side, and detained by Khurram on the 
other, finds himself inan impossible situation from which he can 
only extricate himself by a hurried and clandestine departure, 
and in extract 7 he has to bear the consequences of his loyalty 
to the Emperor and see his camp looted by the vindicative fury 
of the same Khurram, who would not forgive him his quite 
justifiable sateckio. Of the two extracts, the former contains 
an account of the exploits of Khurram from his marriage with 
the niece of Nur Mahal (Nur Jahan), to his rebellion in Mandu 
(1622 A.D.); and the latter an account of Khurram’s successes 
in the Poorb (1624 A.D.) and his subsequent campal defeat 
at the hands of Prince Parvez and Mohbat Khan. The list of 
the Rajput Chiefs fallen in the last-mentioned battle, in which 
the name of an elephant is also included, is piety inter- 
esting. Lists of killed and wounded are very common in 
the Khyatas, and thanks to their accuracy, often furnish data 
of the greatest value 
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