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* we pitched our tents twenty kos from Dihli. Next day the 
* battle os and lasted from morn to night. On the following 
‘4 “day t the imperial troops charged the Scheles ‘Abdullah Khan was 
sajtaved, and or UP, who had fled from the field, was Yronght 
“ back a prisoner. 
‘Indyatullah a and the officers of the Escheat Depart- 
ment (buyutat) were now sent with all despatch to confiscate the 
late Wazir’s property together with that of all his relatives and 
dependants. Sayyid Ghulam ‘Ali Khan, who had been left in 
charge of Dihli as the » Hayyid's deputy, directly he heard of the 
great disaster, collected all the gold and jewels he could lay hands 
upon, and in the confusion got clear away, thanks to the disguise 
he had adopted. Sayyid Najabat ‘Ali Khan, nephew and adopted 
son of the defeated wazir, and then a boy of thirteen or fourteen 
years, was seized and sent to share his uncle’s prison.* 
After this seizure, there was at this time no farther pursuit 
of the fugitive Sayyids ; their home villages were not confiscated 
nor their houses plun nde red. This forbearance i is attributed to the 
Muhammad Amin an, however, did not approve of this 
clemency, and gave orders to his ‘@mil or manager, ‘Abd-ul-latif 
Beg, then present with five thousand horsemen in the new wazir’s 
fiefs of Budaon and Sambhal, to cross the Ganges into the 
Diabah and lay waste the Barhah country. Nothing came of 
this attempt. The Sayyids collected the Gijars and other tribes 
welling on their estates, and “ broke the covetous teeth of the 
Is”; and as that “old dodger,’ Muhammad Amin Khan, 
died soon after, they were left for the time in peace. 
eanwhile Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khan remained a prisoner in 
the citadel of Dihli under the charge of Haidar Quli Khan, who, 
after the death of Muhammad Amin Khan, was high in the 
imperial favour. The Sa ayyid was treated with hor receiving 
delicate food to eat and fine clothes to wear. But so long as he 
submission and loyalty conditional on the release 0’ id. 
time to time other rumours were put into circulation. At 
i Khan’s 
a place near the imperial apartments, where he continued to be 
ted. Two years elapsed, but the Mughals never ceased 
in their plotting, until at length they obtained the emperor's 


BL eng -ul-insha ( Cighoaraphed copy); p. 86. 
2 Khafi Khan, IT, 9 
3 ae sage or Kathorah, one of the principal of the thirty-two villages 
ocenpied by the Chathaniri branch of the Barhah yes see Sayyid 
—— ‘Alva Mss, Sayyid-ut-tawarikh (composed in 1864 A.D.). 
Mhd. Qasim, ‘Lahori, B84. 
