652 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1908. 
Hijab 1132 H. (8th October 1720), a plot had been hatching for 
e destruction of Bcc ‘Ali Khan. The. chief conspirators 
were Muhammad Amin Khan, Haidar Quli Khan, ‘Abd-ul-ghaf- 
fir and Mir Jum Wal. oe would be thought that the last-named, 
after his unfavourable experience in Farrukhsiyar’s reign. would 
have declined to enter into any more projects of this sort; and 
he does not figure as a very active sharer in the plot. Sayyid 
Muhammad Amin, Sa‘adat Khan, the new faujdar of Biyanah, was 
also entrusted with the secret, A wi ing instrument was found 
in the person of Mir Haidar Beg, Dughlat, a man from Kash- 
ghar. Muhammad Amin Khan is reported to have made an 
appeal to the loyalty of his Mughals. Unable as they were to 
me Husain ‘Ali Khan’s army, would any brave man devote 
his life to te ‘Mir Bakhshi’s removal ? If the assassin survived, 
Then Mir Haidar Beg offered himself: ‘I ama Bayzid and he 
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mother through Sade ta Sided, head duenna of the harem, the 
intermediary being one Shah ‘Abd-ul- ar, a faqir from 
Tatieb in Sind, who passed to and fro disguised in woman’s attire 
seller of milk. We shall hear more of this man later in the 
rei Mubammad Amin Khan also made hints several times to 
Muhammad Shah in the Turki tongue, which they both under- 
stood, Once this was done in Husain ‘Ali Khan's presence. He 
asked what had been said. Muhammad Shah replied that the 
noble had asked for leave to withdraw as he hada pain in his 
stomach. As Muhammad Shéh thus kept his secret, Muhammad 
Amin Khan inferred that he°was not unfavourable to the plot. 
Once after they had left Fathpur Sikri behind, Sa‘adat Khan, 
in the darkness of night, came to the tent of Mhd. Amin Khan, 
and it was decided that an attempt upon the life of Husain ‘Ali 
Khan should be made next day while they were on the march. 
Bringing up their ee on his right hand and on his left, they 
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were to envelop him and his retinue, and slay him. Qamar-nd- 
din Khan supported this ee warmly. But the next day af 
was found that Husain ‘Ali n had descended from his hors 
and had mounted an daha ves aon was thought ie al 
able; and feageia2 plan was now devised. 
e before his assassination ee ‘Ali Khan a 
foolish acai about making an emperor of any one on whom 


din Kia or i lee eror, knew any hing ut this is more than donbtfal. 
2 The brother of Shapor Khan (Kamwar Khia afi Khan, II, 
903, calls him of Chaghatae race. His family bore the epithet of Mir-i- 
shamsher, and he was commonly called Mir Haidar r Beg. Mirz& Haidar, 
governor of Kashmir and author of the Tarikh-i-rashidi, is said to have been 
his great-grandfather. 
: . oe Khan, 4 902, ago ore ee -khawaqin, 1754 
afi Khan, II, 903; d, 42; Tarikh-i-Shakir Khéni, Yahya Khan, 
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