1 Ahmad Shah enters
2 Delhi.
3 Exactions,
4 ‘
5 Pillago.
6 Nassacres.
7 Blavery,
8 Alamgir restored on
9 the throne of Delhi.
10 pei Sindh
11 coded to ince T 2
12 Shah, Tlace Tymir
13 228 " HISTORY OF THE PANJAR,
14 dence with the invader, came as far as Karnal to pay homage to the Abddli
15 Shah, while the Emperor Alamgir II, with Imad-ul-Mulk Ghazi-ud-din Khan,
16 the wazir, came to meet the king at Narela, ten os from Dehli, on the Sirhind
17 road. Ahmad Shah received the king with great distinction, and both
18 monarchs entered Delhi together, Alamgir having previously decorated the
19 Moghal palace for the reception of his illustrious visitor. Ghazi-ud-din was
20 frightened on the visit of the Abddli king to the capital, and by the good
21 offices of prince Ali Gohar ingratiated himself with the widow of Moin-ul-
22 Mulk. She interceded on the wazir’s behalf with the invader, who, pleased
23 with his address, pardoned him and confirmed him in his rank and office on
24 condition of his paying a heavy tribute. The Abddli now commenced
25 laying heavy contributions on the Omerahs of the capital. He demanded
26 ninety lakhs of rupees from Nawab Intizam-ud-doula Khan-i-Khadndn, son of
27 Kamar-ud-din Khan, and Sardar Jahan Khan was appointed to realise the
28 money. The Omerah expressed his inability to pay such a heavy contribution.
29 Mahram Khan, Khoja Sarai (eunuch) was thereupon ordered to search the
30 nawdb’s house for money and valuables. The order was obeyed, and more
31 than three times as much as the Shah demanded was discovered hid in the
32 ground, in the treasury, and in various parts of the house. The houses of
33 all the other Dehli Omerahs and nawébs were similarly searched and
34 excavated, and incalculable wealth fell into the hands of the Abdali king.
35 Thus, on the information supplied by Murad Begum, the widow of Mir
36 Manni, the house of Sholapuri Begum, the wife of Kamar-ud-din Khan,
37 was searched, and cash, ornaments and jewels worth several Jakhs of rupees
38 were found and seized. The avaricious Shah’s thirst for riches and wealth
39 was not yet satiated, and greater calamities were in store for the unfortunate
40 people of Delhi. Having extorted all he could from the Omerahs of State,
41 he ordered the town to be pillaged, and nearly all the horrors which had been
42 experienced at the time of Nddir’s invasion, were repeated. The Shah
43 remained at Dehli for two months, during which time the unfortunate capital
44 was systematically plundered. He formed an alliance with the Dehli
45 emperor by marrying his son, Tymur Shah, to the daughter of Ahmad Shah
46 son of Muhammad Shah. He then laid seige to Balamgarh, astrong fort, and
47 put the garrison to the sword. Proceeding then to Mathra, he surprised the
48 sacred city whilst the people were solemnising one of their religious festivals,
49 slaughtered, unsparingly, the unfortunate votaries, put the inhabitants to
50 the sword for the enormous crime of defending their faith and honour, razed
51 to the ground rich and spacious temples, and carried hundreds of the Hindus
52 into slavery. The tyrant next advanced to Agra, to which city he laid siege,
53 and, being exasperated at the repulse sustained there by the Durrdni troops
54 at the hands of Fazil Khan the Moghal governor, he spread death and
55 devastation through the territory of the Jats.
56 After these promiscuous slaughters and scenes of barbarity, the Shah,
57 having suffered much from the heat, returned to Delhi. He himself now formed
58 a matrimonial alliance with Hazrat Begum, younger daughter of Muhammad
59 Shah, by his wife Sahib Mahal. Having then levied a heavy contribution
60 on the emperor Alamgir, he reinstated him on the throne of his ancestors.
61 He appointed Intizam-ud-doula Khan-i-Khéndn, son of Kamar-ud-din Khan,
62 grand wazir, and Najib-ud-doula Amir-ul-Omerah Bakhshi, or commander-in-
63 chief of the empire, and, after these transactions, returned to Jandahar
64 (A.D. 1757). The emperor of Dehli was compelled to cede the Panjab and
65 Sindh to Tymur Shab. Thus, the spoliation and ruin which Nadir Shah
66 had commenced, were pretty well completed by Ahmad Shah. On his way
67 to Léhore, the Sikhs plundered his baggage, and cut off the stragglers of the
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