1 Revolt of Farrukh-
2 seer,
3 The battle of Agra,
4 1712,
5 Defeat of the
6 emperor.
7 Tis flight to Delhi,
8 He is confined in
9 Salemgarh,
10 4
11 186 HISTORY OF THE PANJAB,
12 power in the State. His will became absolute in all matters connected
13 with the administration of the country; and his pride, according to Irddat
14 Khan, was such that “even Pharaoh and Shadad could not have obtained
15 admission to his threshhold.” In the midst of this scene of disorder and
16 imbecility, it was reported that Farrukhseer, son of Azim-ush-shan, the
17 favourite son of Bahddur Shah, assisted by the Sayads, Abdulla Khan, gover-
18 nor of Behar, and Husain Ali Khan, governor of Allahabad, both brothers
19 was preparing for war at Patna, where public prayers had been read for
20 him in the mosques and money coined in his name. A powerful army,
21 under Az-ud-din, the emperor’s son, and Khwa4ja Ahsan Khan, Khan-i-douran,
22 brother of Gokal Tash Khan, was sent to oppose his progress, but was
23 defeated. On this the emperor left his capital with an army of 70,000
24 horse, a numerous body of infantry and a train of artillery, with the
25 Amir-ul-omerah, Zulfikar Khan, in the chief command, The two armies
26 confronted each other on 80th December, 1712, on the plains of Agra. A
27 fierce attack made by the Sayads threw Jahdndar’s army into confusion, and,
28 the best of his generals having been slain, among them being his foster
29 brother, Gokal Tash Khan, the thoughts of the craven emperor turned to
30 his mistress, Lal Kaur, and, mounting her elephant, he retreated to Agra
31 in the dusk of the evening. Zulfikar Khan maintained his ground until
32 the first watch of the night, but, seeing that matters were past remedy, he
33 left the field at the head of his troops, but in good order. The emperor,
34 having shaved his beard and whiskers like a Hindu, and disguised him-
35 self by a change of dress, fled to the capital, in the night, with his mistress
36 and a host of singers, eunuchs and people of all sorts attached to his
37 person. On arriving at Delhi, instead of going to the citadel, he went to
38 the house of the old wazir, Asad-ud-doula, who immediately seized him and
39 placed him in confinement. Farrukhseer applauded the wazir’s conduct,
40 and Jahdndar Shah was placed in the custody of Sayad Abdulla Khan, and
41 kept in close confinement in the palace of Salemgarh. Thus ended the
42 reign of the weak Jahdudar Shah,* after a duration of only eleven months.
43 chose Khan reached his father’s palace in Delhisoon after Jahdudar
44 hah.
45 _ My. Rodgers, in the Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society, mentions the following inscrip-
46 tions on the coins of Jahindar Shah -—
47 BS Jota gsk Push xle > ye 52 Sho 9} ELT o9
48 © Abul Fath Ghazi Jahindar Shah put his stamp on the sun and moon throughout the
49 1.”
50 world. ;
51 Another coin had the following inscription :—
52 lye lb ob a& athe a8 Gale 52 I5 32 keke oy
53 ee The victorious Emperor Jahandar Shah struck coin in his dominions like thesun and
54 The Miftah-ul-Tawarikh gives the following inscription :— ;
55 ls Molo (SE slags gle g ge? Yee He 0 & horas:
56 “The victorius Emperor Jahéndar Shah struck coin in his dominions like the sun and
57 moon.
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