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He halted for a few days at Sikandrah near Agrah. On the 7th 
Zu,l Hijjah (9th October 1720) he was at a halting place near 
Sarde Chath, about forty-eight miles north-west of Agrah and 
about sixty-four miles from Dihli,! when at midnight, within 
eighteen hours of the event, a camel-rider brought the scrap of 
paper from Ratn Cand announcing the overwhelming news of 
Husain ‘Ali Khan’s assassination. Revenge was his only thought. 
Summoni ning to his presence the nobles in his train, he told them 
his heart-rending story, beseeching and imploring them to throw 
in their lot with him. Some from their hearts, others only out 
of pradence, agreed to stand by him 
of the more ardent spir its proposed an immediate 
a te aireneih, before Muhammad Shah could be reinforced, 
r Husnin ‘Ali Khan’s ‘troops be bought over by him. Bat 
‘Abdullah Khan, reflecting that Muhammad Shah was in full 
possession of the throne, while his own army was out of heart, 
decided that to take the field without any claimant to the throne 
was undesirable. It was better, he thought, to proceed first to 
the capital, there to collect an army, select a candidate, and res- 
tore the confidence bs of his adherents. 
That same day the march for Dihli was med. 
regarding the attacks of the Mewatis and the Sats, who daily 
plundered their baggage and slew their camp-followers, they 
pushed on until they came to Faridabad, twenty-one miles from 
Dihli Shays etalee Khan, gangs of ‘Abdullah Khan, Mur- 
Khan, an Sita Ram, in the wazir’s parte ence, 
: ard in haste to Fike etd with satan to consult 
Ni ajm-nd-din ‘Ali Khan, the wazir’s brother, and select one of 
the imprisoned princes of the house of Taimir for elevation to 
the throne. Distnrbances had broken out at once in the jagirs 
held by the Sayyids, their sgents were ejected, and the cultiva- 
tors refused the instalments of rent due on the autumn harvest.® 

having been killed in Muharram, which bet — ——— after Husain 
‘Ali Khan’s assassination, Warid’s lines, f. 1654, 
Az rahlat-i-Husain a Khan-i-din-panah 
Dar Hin d gisht waqi ah-i-Karhala padid. 
Tarikh-1 Silat. ach "ih gul-i- high-i-jinnat ast, 
Taha‘-am sihr 2i Hatif- Rac in nada shunid ; 
Guftand qudsindn kih:‘ Yazid-i-duyam nomad 
“ Dar Karbalae Hind Husain-i- pr hieitex shahid.” 
A tarikh sf ‘Abd-ul-jalil, Bi Pion is given in the rideg aig -un-nezirin of 
his sen. It runs to fiftv lines, of which the last vives th 
Qutl-i- Husain kard Yuzid- Ja'in-é-Hind | (1132). This mae poem, by its 
dirge like cadence. accords agen as ita subject 
1! From Todah Bhim. to Chath is ut 64 miles as the crow flies. 
Khashhal Cand, Berlin MS. 495. f. 10118 gre Besse Nah Khan wasin par 
.ganuh Hodal. and gives the date as the 8 i Hijj: th. The town of 
. 2 Khan Jahan, the w-zir’s uncle and sibuhddr ne Dihti. ie seen about 
the nigel Shawwal 1132 H. (16th Rede 1720 , Kamwar Khan 
Kamwar = 214, 238, Khafi Khan, II, 901, 911, 92 O18, Warid, 
iin Shia Das. 
