1 A. D. 1745-6. INTRIGUES AT LAHOR. 5
2 persons who invoked the name of GoorooGovind, and
3 a reward was oflFered for the heads of his disciples. This
4 rigour and snmmary proscription checked the progress
5 of Sikh proselytism, and the enthusiasm of the votaries
6 of the Gooroo was considerably diminished. Many cut
7 their long hair and curtailed their flowing beards to avoid
8 detection and death, and others fled across the Sutlej
9 into the adjoining province of Sirhiud, where they found
10 protection or concealment in the wide wastes which lie
11 to the west of Puteeala and Xaba.
12 Not long after this event, the younger brother of
13 Ylheea Khan, by name Shah Nuwaz Khan, rose
14 in insurrection against him, and succeeded in establishing
15 himself in the two provinces of Labor and Mooltau, mak-
16 ing prisoner Yuheea Khan, with all his state officers.
17 He nominated a Hindoo, named Kaonra Ml'l, to he\
18 Dewan in lieu of LuKHPUT Raee, but left Adeena
19 Beg KnAN'T'wEoliad risen under his father Zl kareea
20 Khan, and governed with much vigour the difficult
21 district of the Jalundhur Dooab, in both civil and mili-
22 tary charge of that tract. Ylheea Khan escaped
23 from Labor, and hastening to Dehlee, laid his com-
24 plaint before the Vuzeer, his uncle Kumur-ood-deen
25 Khan, who was at the same time privately informed,
26 that Shah Xuwaz Khan, in fear of the consequences
27 of his act, had opened a correspondence with Ahmed
28 Shah Abdalee. The Shah had recently seized Kabool
29 and Peshawur in ejection of the Dehlee Soobahdar,
30 Nasir Khan, an event that had excited much alarm
31 at the capital. The Vuzeer availing himself of his
32 relationship appealed to his nephew's sense of honor, and
33 addressed to him a strong remonstrance on his defection