1 Tho grandces of the
2 empire.
3 Revolt of prince
4 Kam Baksh.
5 His defeat.
6 His death, 1708.
7 Riso of the Sikhs.
8 Their defeat at
9 Rahoen.
10 The Moghal capital
11 removed to Lahore,
12 Punishment of the
13 Sikhs.
14 They are forbidden
15 from entering Lahore.
16 Bahidur Shs
17 Shin adur Shah a
18 His religious dis-
19 courses with the
20 Dienias of Lahore.
21 Sri Satguru J agjit Singh Ji eLibrary NamdhariE
22 180 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB,
23 braced Monim Khan for his gallantry in the field, presented him with an
24 unprecedented gift of a kavor of rupees, and elevated him to the office of
25 wazir, with the title Jumlat-ul-mulk.
26 Shah Alam, on ascending the throne of Delhi, assumed the title of Bahd-
27 dur Shah. He received the subinission of the Amirs of Iran and Turén, the
28 former headed by Asad Khan and his son, Zulfikar Khan, and the latter
29 by the blind veteran, Ghazi-ud-din Firozejang, and his mighty son, Chin
30 Kalich Khan, who had been created Khan-i-douran by Azam, and was the
31 founder of the Nizdm dynasty in the Dekkan. On Chin Kalich Khan was
32 conferred the tittle of Jalzl-ul-kadr, and he was raised to the dignity of
33 Vakil-i-mutlak, or lord lieutenant of the empire.
34 No sooner had Prince Kém Baksh heard of the death of his brother,
35 Azam, and his nephews, than he made preparations for war. In vain did
36 the mild emperor try to pacify him, as the overtures sent served only to
37 strengthen his defiance. Provoked by his arrogance, the emperor was
38 obliged to take the field against him, and a battle was fought near Hyder-
39 abéd in which the army of the insurrectionary prince was routed and he
40 himself mortally wounded, The benevolent monarch ordered his wounded
41 brother to be brought into bis camp, where European surgeons were ap~
42 pointed to attend him. Towards evening Bahddur Shah himself went on
43 foot to his brother’s tent to pay him a visit, and, covering his head with
44 his own mantle, exclaimed: “ Alas! I never desired to see my brother in
45 this condition.” “Nor did I ever desire,” rejoined the proud dying man,
46 “to see you in the condition you now are.” The rash prince refused all
47 nourishment and expired the same night, his body being sent to Delhi
48 to be interred in the cemetery of the race.
49 The victory over Prince Kém Baksh and his ultimate fate put an end
50 to all competition for sovereignty in Hindostén. About this time (1709-10)
51 the Sikhs, a class of eclectic sectaries, who had sprung up in the Panjab,
52 overran the provinces of Sirhind, Sahdrdnptir, and part of Mozaffarnagar,
53 and committed great excesses on the people. Having been driven across
54 the Jamna by the imperial troops, they fell back on the Jalandar Dodb.
55 Their forces by this time exceeded seventy thousand. Shams-ud-din Khan,
56 the Moghal governor of Jalandar, collecting all the available troops, gave
57 the Sikhs battle at Rédhon, where they were repulsed with great loss.
58 The atrocities committed by the Sikhs in the Panjab induced Bahddur
59 Shah to remove his capital from Delhi to Léhore. Asad Khan, lieutenant-
60 general, who bad entered the mountains to blockade the Sikhs, having
61 died at Léhore, the office was conferred on Hidayatulla Khan, son of Inayat-
62 ud-din Khan; and Rustam Dil Khan was sent to the hills to chastise the
63 Sikhs. The emperor in the meantime encamped on the banks of the Ravi.
64 A short time after, Rustam Dil Khan quitted his command in the hills and
65 repaired to Léhore. He was punished with the forfeiture of his jagfr-and
66 his command, and put in confinement in the citadel of Léhore. Muhammad
67 Amin Khan was sent to the hills to take the command of the imperial army.
68 The Sikhs were forbidden. to enter into the city of Lihore, and they now
69 aaa to the suburbs at night by swimming the Ravi, and retired before day-
70 reak. ;
71 ' Bahddur Shah was fond of the society of learned men, and took great
72 delight in discourses on the topics of Jaw and divinity. He was a Mahom-
73 edan of the Skid persuasion, and, on his arrival at Lahore, he assembled
74 the learned men of the town, most of them staunch Stininis, and wished to
75 get them by force of argument to acknowledge the justice of Ali’s succession
76 to the Khalifét, in preference to the three first fybalifs The, learned men
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