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Pirzadahs of Sirliind and Sadtiaura, arrived at the camp in a destitute 
condition, raising loud cries about the oppression that they had suffered, 
and making many grievous complaints. Ajmer was quitted on the 1st 
Jamadi I, 1122 (27th June, 1710), urgent orders being sent to Khan 
Dauran (afterwards Nizamu-l-Mulk) the Subahdar of Audh ; Muhammad 
Amin Khan, Cln, faujdar of Muradabad; Khan Jahan, Subahdar of 
Allahabad, and Sayyad ‘Abdullah Khan, Barha, calling on them to 
march without delay and join Asad Khan, Subahdar of Dihli and 
Wakil-i-mutlaq , in his advance against the Sikhs. Meanwhile the Em¬ 
peror’s camp moved on, via Rupnagar, Sambhar, Rasiilpur, Prfigpura 
and Narnaul; the capital, Dihli, being passed on their right hand at a 
considerable distance. 1 In order to prevent desertions, proclamation 
was made on the 1st Rajab, 1122 (25th August, 1710), that no man 
should visit Dihli without permission, nor should any man’s family 
come out to camp to see him. Another precautionary measure was an 
order for all Hindus employed in the imperial offices to shave off their 
beards. As the Sikhs had many well-wishers among the Khatri clerks, 
these men were thus forced to choose between losing their appointments, 
or committing an act that excluded them from the Sikh sect, The 
order was carried out, it seems, in a very harsh manner. Petty officers 
perambulated the streets and bazars of the camp, followed by barbers 
bearing dirty water in a scavenger’s vessel. Whenever a Hindu was met 
wearing a beard, he was seized and his beard shaved off. The clerks in 
the imperial offices hid in their quarters, and did not appear again in 
public, until they had been shaved. 2 3 
Prom Pragpura, on the 12th Jamadi II, 1122 (7th August, 1710), 
a force was sent on in advance, under the command of Flruz Khan. 
Mewatl, Sultan Quli Khan, a nephew of Rustam Dil Khan, Shakir 
Khan, and others; an allowance of 50,000 rupees being granted to Flruz 
Khan for the payment of levies. Muhammad Amin Khan and his son, 
Qamru-d-din Khan, arrived about the same time from Muradabad (27th 
Jamadi II, 1122 (22nd August, 1710). A week or two after the first 
force had started, another was sent off under Sayyad Wajlhu-d-dln 
Khan, Barha. On the 4th Rajab (28th August) Khan Dauran s reach¬ 
ed the camp ; and when the Emperor was at the towm of PatodhI, 4 (17th 
1 Rupnagar, about 28 m. N. of Ajmer, about 200 m. S.-W. of Dihli; Sambhar, 
about 55 m. N.-E. of Ajmer; Rasulpur, (not traced) ; Pragpura, 120 m. N.-E. of 
Ajmer, about 100 m. S.-W. of Dihli; Narnaul, 150 m. N -E. of Ajmer, 80 m. S.-W. 
of Dihli. 
2 Qasim, 32, Kamwar Khan, 73. Khafi Khan, II, 669, 674*. Dasturu-l-Ivsha, 13. 
3 Formerly Cin Qilic Khan, afterwards Nizamu-l-Mulk. 
4 About 35 m. S.-W. of Dihli. 
