Tempo:
88 1756-3.
reannexed to Delhi,
end of 1752.
Ahmad Shah's fourth invasion.
Prince Tai-
mur, governor of the Punjab, and Najibud-daula placed at the head of the Delhi
army, 1755-6.
Taimur expels the Sikhs irom Amritsar.
HISTOKY OF THE SIKHS
CHAP. IV
acknowledgement of his infant son as viceroy under her own guardianship, and she endeavoured to stand equally well with the court of Delhi and with the Durrani king. She professed submission to both, and she betrothed her daughter to Ghazi-ud-din, the grandson of the first Nizam of the Deccan, who had supplanted the viceroy of Oudh as the minister of the enfeebled empire of India. ^ But the Wazir wished to recover a province for his sovereign, as well as to obtain a bride for himself. He proceeded to Lahore and removed his enraged mother-in-law; and the Punjab remained for a time under the nominal rule of Adina Beg Khan, until Ahmad Shah again marched and made it his own. The Durrani king passed through Lahore in the winter of 1755-6, leaving his son Taimur under the tutelage of a chief, named Jahan Khan, as governor. The Shah likewise annexed Sirhind to 'his territories, and although he extended his pardon to Ghazi-ud-din personally, he did not return to Kandahar until he had plundered Delhi and Mathura, and placed Najib-ud-daula, a Rohilla leader, near the person of the Wazir's puppet king, as the titular com.mander of the forces of the Delhi empire, and as the efficient representative of Abdali interests.^ Prince Taimur's first object was to thoroughly disperse the insurgent Sikhs, and to punish Adina Beg for the support which he had given to the Dellii minister in recovering Lahore. Jassa, the carpenter, had restored the Ram Rauni of Amritsar; that place was accordingly attacked, the fort was levelled, the buildings were demolished, and the sacred reservoir was filled with the ruins. Adina Beg would not trust the. prince, and retired to the hills, secretly aiding and encouraging the Sikhs in their desire for revenge. They assembled in great numbers, for the faith of Gobind which corresponds with a. d. 1751, 1752.
Murray (Ranjit Singh, simply says Mannu did not long survive his submission, but Elphinstone {Kabul, ii. 288) gives 1756 as the date of the p. 13)
viceroy's death. 1 The original name of Ghazi-ud-din was Shahab-ud-din, corrupted into Sahoodeen and Shaodeen by the Marathas. '2 Cf. Forster, Travels, i. 316, 317; Browne, Tracts, ii. 48; Malcolm, Sketch, pp. 92, 94; Elphinstone, Kabul, ii. 288, 289; and Murray, Ranjit Singh, pp. 14, 15. During the nominal viceroyalty of Mir Mannu's widow, one Bikari Khan played a conspicuous part as her deputy. He was finally put to death by the lady as one who designed to supplant her authority; but he was, nevertheless, supposed to (Cf. Browne, ii. 18, and Murray, have been her paramour. The- gilt mosque at Lahore was built by this Bikari p. 14.) Khan.
reannexed to Delhi,
end of 1752.
Ahmad Shah's fourth invasion.
Prince Tai-
mur, governor of the Punjab, and Najibud-daula placed at the head of the Delhi
army, 1755-6.
Taimur expels the Sikhs irom Amritsar.
HISTOKY OF THE SIKHS
CHAP. IV
acknowledgement of his infant son as viceroy under her own guardianship, and she endeavoured to stand equally well with the court of Delhi and with the Durrani king. She professed submission to both, and she betrothed her daughter to Ghazi-ud-din, the grandson of the first Nizam of the Deccan, who had supplanted the viceroy of Oudh as the minister of the enfeebled empire of India. ^ But the Wazir wished to recover a province for his sovereign, as well as to obtain a bride for himself. He proceeded to Lahore and removed his enraged mother-in-law; and the Punjab remained for a time under the nominal rule of Adina Beg Khan, until Ahmad Shah again marched and made it his own. The Durrani king passed through Lahore in the winter of 1755-6, leaving his son Taimur under the tutelage of a chief, named Jahan Khan, as governor. The Shah likewise annexed Sirhind to 'his territories, and although he extended his pardon to Ghazi-ud-din personally, he did not return to Kandahar until he had plundered Delhi and Mathura, and placed Najib-ud-daula, a Rohilla leader, near the person of the Wazir's puppet king, as the titular com.mander of the forces of the Delhi empire, and as the efficient representative of Abdali interests.^ Prince Taimur's first object was to thoroughly disperse the insurgent Sikhs, and to punish Adina Beg for the support which he had given to the Dellii minister in recovering Lahore. Jassa, the carpenter, had restored the Ram Rauni of Amritsar; that place was accordingly attacked, the fort was levelled, the buildings were demolished, and the sacred reservoir was filled with the ruins. Adina Beg would not trust the. prince, and retired to the hills, secretly aiding and encouraging the Sikhs in their desire for revenge. They assembled in great numbers, for the faith of Gobind which corresponds with a. d. 1751, 1752.
Murray (Ranjit Singh, simply says Mannu did not long survive his submission, but Elphinstone {Kabul, ii. 288) gives 1756 as the date of the p. 13)
viceroy's death. 1 The original name of Ghazi-ud-din was Shahab-ud-din, corrupted into Sahoodeen and Shaodeen by the Marathas. '2 Cf. Forster, Travels, i. 316, 317; Browne, Tracts, ii. 48; Malcolm, Sketch, pp. 92, 94; Elphinstone, Kabul, ii. 288, 289; and Murray, Ranjit Singh, pp. 14, 15. During the nominal viceroyalty of Mir Mannu's widow, one Bikari Khan played a conspicuous part as her deputy. He was finally put to death by the lady as one who designed to supplant her authority; but he was, nevertheless, supposed to (Cf. Browne, ii. 18, and Murray, have been her paramour. The- gilt mosque at Lahore was built by this Bikari p. 14.) Khan.
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