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course, in the same general direction as before, its bank in some places 
much more defined than in others, it runs close to Hurappah on the 
Sevi (Sibi), and to have waged war with Humati Ghughattd for Cliakar was “a 
godlike man,” and chief of the “ lofty Ghulam Bolak Rinds.” 
Mr. Dames adds that “ it is difficult ffo say how far any part of Chakar’s adven¬ 
tures are historical;” and he quotes “ Brigg’s Ferishta,” and “ Erskine’s Babar ” 
to show that “the irruption of the Baloches into the Panjiib, about 1520 A. D., was 
probably caused by the pressure on them of the Turks or [sic.] Mughals who were 
then under the Arghuns invading Kacfihi and Sindh.” 
More “history” of this kind is given in “Griffin’s Panjaub Chiefs.” The Panj¬ 
ab Government “invited” all the chiefs of tribes to send in an account of their 
ancestors, and descent of their tiubes ; and the result is contained in that work. 
It can be imagined how the chiefs drew the long bow, what glowing accounts they 
gave, and what noble or royal descent they gave themselves and their tribes. 
Fortunately for historical truth, I can show “ how far Chakar’s adventures are 
historical,” and also the nature of the “ history” adduced respecting that “ god-like 
man.” 
Mirza Shah Husain, the Arghun Mughal, son of Shah Beg Kh an, the conqueror 
of Sind, determined, at the instigation, it is said, of Babar Badshah, to make war 
on the Langah Jat ruler of Multan, but before doing so, he determined to coerce the 
refractory Baluchis in the northern and western part of his territory, around Siwl 
and parts adjacent. With a body of 1,000 cavalry, he made a forced march from 
Bakhar by way of Chatar and Lahri, and came upon the Rinds and Bughtfs, over¬ 
threw them, made many captives, reduced them to submission, and brought back 
their head men along with him to Bakhar. This was in 930 H. (1523-24 A. D.). 
He then set out on his expedition against Multan in 931 H. (1524-25 A. D.) ; 
and a force composed of Langah Jats, Rinds, Duda’is, and other Baluchis, Ohandiyahs, 
Naghars, and others, to the number of about 80,000 men, awaited him on the 
banks of the Gharah to dispute his crossing. Sultan Mahmud, Langah, had only 
made one march from Multan to join this army, when he suddenly died, said to 
have been poisoned by his son-in-law, the Shaikh, Shuja’-ud-Din, Bukhari, while 
some say he was poisoned by a house-hold slave, named Lashkar Kh an, and this 
great army melted away. 
The Langah Jats, whom such history ” writers will persist in turning into 
Afghans, now set up the young son of Sultan Mahmud ; and came to an accommoda¬ 
tion with Mirza Shah Husain, “ by ceding to him all the Multan territory south of 
the Gharah, which river was to be the new boundary.” 
Soon after this, in 933 H. (1526-27 A. D.), the affairs of Multan became utterly 
disordered : the chiefs of the late Sultan refused to submit to the young ruler, he 
being a mere puppet in the hands of the Shaikh, and they invited Mirza Shah 
Husain to take possession of Multan. He set out in the same year ; and on the 
15th of Rabi’-us-Sani, 933 H. (January, 1527 A.D.), captured Multan, in which the 
supporters of the Shaikh and the young Sultan had shut themselves up. The place 
was completely sacked, numbers of those found within were put to the sword, 
and the remainder enslaved. The Wazir Shaikh and the Sultan were cast into 
prison, and there they died, the latter after a nominal reign of one year and eight 
months ; and the Langah Jat dynasty, which arose out of a fraud, terminated at the 
end of twenty-seven years. 
