1854.] A Sketch oftlie Mahomedan History of Cashmere. 433 



"We have seen also that in the year 1587 A. D., the admiral Kasiin 

 Khan was relieved by Yoosuf Khan the 2nd Soobadar, who, after 

 being in power five years, was in his tnrn succeeded by Mahomed 

 Koolie Khan on the departure of Akbar in the year 1592 A. D., 

 with which event also we closed our last chapter. (A. D. 1592.) 



There is some discrepancy of dates amongst the several authorities 

 about this period, some historians giving six years, and others eleven 

 years, as the term of Koolie Khan's government. Abul Fazal also 

 records a third visit of the Emperor Akbar to the valley, and he is 

 probably correct ; but in general the accounts of the various 

 Emperors' visits to Cashmere are singularly curt and void of interest ; 

 indeed it seems to have been reserved for an European (Bernier) 

 who long afterwards visited the valley in the train of the Emperor 

 Aurungzebe, to give any thing approaching a graphic account of the 

 pageantry we may suppose to have accompanied their progresses. 

 Of the several governors also little more is recorded than their 

 names, dates of appointment, and terms of government. The fol- 

 lowing few facts, however, derived from various sources, appear to 

 have taken place and may be briefly recorded. 



A. D. 1592.— As before mentioned (page 432.) Todar Mull, the 

 celebrated police minister of Akbar, was entrusted under the Soo- 

 badar Mahomed Koolie Khan, with the task of bringing the country 

 into a proper state of subjection. 



It was therefore, probably at his recommendation that the fort of 

 the Harrieparbut or (to use the Mahomedan name) the Koh-i-Maran 

 was constructed, with a view of overawing the capital. It was 

 finished about the year 1597, A. D. at a cost of £1,100,000. Means 

 were at the same time adopted of rendering the native Cashmerians 

 less warlike, and of breaking their old independent spirit. Amongst 

 other measures to effect this, I have been informed (but have 

 nowhere seen it recorded) as a fact very generally believed in Cash- 

 mere, that the Emperor Akbar caused a change to be introduced in 

 the dress of the people. 



In place of the ancient well-girdled tunic adapted to activity and 

 exercise, the Emperor substituted the effeminate long gown of the 

 present day, a change which led to the introduction of the ener- 

 vating kangni corresponding with the Erench Chauffe-chemise or 



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