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Section 7. —Furrakhsiyar’s Wroow is made over to her Father, Ajit 
Singh. 
At the time of setting out from Dihli, Ajit Singh had been ap¬ 
pointed to command the vanguard. Thereupon he commenced to make 
excuses, on the ground that if he left his daughter, Farrukhsiyar’s 
widow, behind him, she would either poison, herself or her name and 
fame would be assailed. Yielding to these pleas, ‘Abdullah Khan 
made the lady over to her father. She performed a ceremony of puri¬ 
fication in the Hindu fashion, and gave up her Mahomedan attire. 
Then, with all her property, estimated to exceed 1,00,00,000 rupees 
(£1,000,000) in value, she was sent off to her native country of Jodh¬ 
pur. Great indignation was felt by the Mahomedans, especially by the 
more bigoted class of those learned in the law. The qazi issued a ruling 
that the giving back of a convert was entirely opposed to Mahomedan 
law. But, in spite of this opposition, ‘Abdullah Khan insisted on con¬ 
ciliating Ajit Singh, although on no previous occasion had a Rajput 
princess been restored to her own people after she had once entered the 
imperial harem. 1 
Section 8.—The Emperor and ‘Abdullah Khan March towards 
Agrah. 
When Husain ‘All Khan learnt that his brother had left the capi¬ 
tal, a movement undertaken without his previous knowledge, he wrote 
an urgent remonstrance. He begged that no advance might be made 
into Rajah Jai Singh’s country, for he had already taken all the precau¬ 
tions that were necessary. His bakhslii , Sayyad Dilawar ‘All Khan, 
with Mir Mushrif and Zafar Khan, Turrah-i-baz, had been sent early in 
the rains to reduce a fort called Fathpur, held by Khama, Jat. This 
force had now been directed to block the way to Rajah Jai Singh, and 
nothing more was required in that direction. ‘Abdullah IDian might 
either encamp where he was, or come on to Agrah. 2 
On the 27th Ramazan (12th August, 1719) a messenger brought 
word to ‘ Abdullah Khan that his brother had just obtained possession 
of Agrah fort, and was then busied in appropriating its contents to his 
lies about 5J miles south of the Dihli gate of the city, and on the road to the Qntb. 
Khizrabad lies east of Moth ki Masjid and nearer the Jamnah, see ante. For Kosi 
see Indian Atlas, sheet No. 49, and Thornton, 523; it is 29 m. N.W. of Mathura, 
lat. 27° 48', long. 77° 29'. Kori and Karahkat I cannot trace on the Indian Atlas, 
Luraoli is on sheet No. 50, about 15 m. west of Agrah. 
1 Siwanih-i-Khizri, Khafi Kh an. II, 833. 
2 Muhammad Qasim, Lahori, 283. 
