1 JALAL-UD-DIN AKBER. - 141
2 April 27th, 1589, and, having reached’ Srinagar, the capital of Kdshmir,
3 staid there a few weeks to make arrangements for the proper government
4 of the country. From Kdshmir the emperor proceeded to Kabul, where he
5 staid for two months. On his way to Kabul, Hakim Fathulla Gilani died
6 at Dhamtor and was buried at Baba Hasan Abdul, A force was despatched
7 from Attock under Shah Béz Khan Kamboh to reduce the Eusdfzai Afghans,
8 who were defeated and dispersed. At Kabul intelligence reached the king
9 of the death, at Lébore, of Raja Todar Mal, his great finance minister, and
10 Raja Bhagwan Das, which caused him sincere distress ; and he left for Lahore
11 on November 19th, 1589. The court was held for some years at Léhore in
12 consequence of the threatened attack on Kabul by Abdullah Khan Uzbek.
13 In the year 1590, Eusuf Khan Mashhedi, governor of Kashmir, having left
14 his younger brother, Mirza Yddgar, in charge of the government of that
15 country, himself repaired to court. Yadgér Mirza, having, during the absence
16 of his brother, married the daughter of a wealthy zemindar of Kashmir,
17 raised the standard of insurrection and caused the Khutba to be read in his
18 own name. The local commanders, Kazi Ali, the collector of revenues,
19 Husein Beg, and Sheikh Umar Badakhshi, collected troops and opposed the in-
20 surgent chief, but Kazi Ali was slain in action, and the remainder of
21 the Moghal officers fled from Kashmir. The emperor, having received
22 advices of these events, sent Sheikh Farid Bakhshi at the head of a force to
23 recover the province of Kdshmir. Yadgar Mirza appeared within sight of
24 the king’s troops, but he was seized by stratagem by Sadak Beg and Ibrahim
25 Khan Koka, officers of the Moghal forces, who put him to death and
26 produced his head before Sheikh Badakhshi. The whole province of
27 Kédshmir was thus reduced a second time under the Imperial Government
28 of Akber. The emperor himself marched to Kdshmir shortly afterwards,
29 and remained there for forty days. Syed Eusdf Khan Meshhedi having been
30 appointed to the government of Kashmir, the emperor marched to Rohtas,
31 where he received the visits of the chiefs of Tatta and Sindh.
32 In the year 1591, Akber sent an expedition from Lahore, where he him-
33 self was at the time, to Sindh, under Mirza Khan, Khan Khanan, with
34 several officers, a train of one hundred elephants and a pack of artillery, with
35 the object of recovering that province for the Delhi sovereignty; but the
36 imperial general was foiled in his attempt to conquer the province. The
37 Emperor sent another detachment, which having entered Sindh by the
38 way of Amarkot, the province was reduced, and the chief of Sindh was
39 appointed a noble of high rank at court.
40 In 1593, Jalala, the chief of the Roshnai Afghans, created disturbances
41 in the valley of Khaibar, Jafar Khan Kazwini, surnamed Asaf Khan,
42 was sent to reduce him. Jalala was defeated, and he and his brothers
43 were sent prisoners to court.
44 One of the most memorable exploits of Akber in Hindostén was the
45 the siege of Chittor. The besieged maintained an obstinate resistance ; 1
46 but the imperialists, by erecting batteries and by mining operations, gained
47 possession of the walls, and the war elephants and cavalry, rushing furiously
48 into the fort, completed the work of destruction. More than thirty thou-
49 sand Rajputs were slain in this battle, and the few who escaped owed their
50 life to stratagem. The fame acquired by the capture of this hitherto im-
51 pregnable fortress, facilitated Akber’s conquests in Gujrat, Behar, Rajputdnd,
52 and Bengal, though it took him fifteen years to reduce the insurrectionary
53 Afghans of the eastern provinces. Another memorable event of Akber’s
54 reign was the siege, in 1594, of Ahmadnagar in the Dekkan, and its most
55 And K4bul, 1589.
56 Death of Rujas Todar
57 Maland Bhagwan Dus,
58 1589.
59 Insurrection in Kash-
60 mir, 1589,
61 Is quelled.
62 Conquest of Sindh,
63 1591,
64 Defeat of Jalala, chief
65 of the Roshuai sect, 1593.
66 The siege of Chittor,
67 567,
68 And of Ahmadnagar,
69 1594,
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