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2 an elephant, Jowahir Singh set out to obey the
3 summons. He took with him his nephew, Dhulip
4 Singh, in the vain hope that the presence of their
5 Maharaja might influence the troops in his favour.
6 On his arrival in their midst " he endeavoured to
7 gain over some influential deputies and officers by
8 present donatives and by lavish promises ; but he was
9 sternly desired to let the Maharaja be removed from
10 his side, and to be himself silent. The boy was
11 placed in a tent near at hand, and a party of soldiers
12 advanced and put the vuzeer to death by a discharge
13 of musketry. Two other persons, the sycophants of
14 the minister, were killed at the same time, but no
15 pillage or massacre occurred ; the act partook of the
16 nature of a judicial process, ordained and witnessed
17 by a whole people." *
18 1 A History of the Sikhs, by J. D. Cunningham, p. 187.