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HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
136 distant. mies of
1810-12.
CHAP. VI
He again moved northward, and, as the eneMahmud were numerous, he succeeded in
mastering Peshawar a second time, after two actions, one a reverse and the other a victory. But those who had aided him became suspicious that he was in secret league with Fateh Khan the Wazir, or, like Ranjit Singh, they wished to possess his person; and, in the course of 1812, he was seized in Peshawar by Jahan Dad Khan, Governor of Attock, and removed, first to that fort, and afterwards to Kashmir, \yhere he remained as a prisoner for more than twelve months. After the failure before Multan, Ranjit Singh and his minister, Mohkam Chand, were employed in bringing more fully under subjection various Sikh and Muhammadan chiefs in the plains, and also the hill Rajas of Bhimbar, Rajaori, and other places. In the month of February 1811, the Maharaja had reached the salt mines between the Jhelum and Indus, and hearing had crossed the latter river, he that Shah
Mahmud
moved in force to Rawalpindi, and sent to ascertain his The Shah had already deputed agents to intentions. state that his object was to punish or overawe the Governor of Kashmir, who had sided with his brother, Shah Shuja, then in the neighbourhood of Multan; and Ranjit Singh
meets
Shah
Mahmud, 1811.
The blind Shah Za-
man repairs for a time
to Lahore, 1811.
the two princes being satisfied, they had a meeting of ceremony before the Maharaja returned \o Lahore, to renew his confiscation of lands held by the many petty chiefs who had achieved independence or sovereignty while the country was without a general controlling
power, but who now fell unresistingly beiore the systematic activity of the young Maharaja.^ In the year 1811, the blind Shah Zaman crossed the Punjab, and was visited by Ranjit Singh. He took up his residence in Lahore for a time, and deputed his son Eunus to Ludhiana, where he was received with attention by Sir David Ochterlony; but as the prince perceived that he was not a welcome guest, his father 1 Sir. D. Ochterlony to Government, 10th Jan. and 26th Feb., 1810, and 27th April, 1812. Shah Shuja's 'Autobiography' chaps, xxiii-xxv, in the Calcutta Monthly Journal for 1839, and Murray, Ranjit Singh, pp. 79, 87, 92. Shah Shuja's second appearance before Multan in 1810-11 attempt is given mainly on Capt. Murray's authority, and the
not mentioned in the Shah's memoirs although it is admitted that he went into the Derajat of the Indus, i.e. to Dera Ismail
is
Khan, &c. 2 Murray, Ranjit Singh, p. 83, &c. The principal of the of the chiefs whose territories were usurped was Budh Singh, Singhpuria or Feizulapuria Misal. See also Sir D. Ochterlony to Government, 15th Oct., 1811.
HISTORY OF THE SIKHS
136 distant. mies of
1810-12.
CHAP. VI
He again moved northward, and, as the eneMahmud were numerous, he succeeded in
mastering Peshawar a second time, after two actions, one a reverse and the other a victory. But those who had aided him became suspicious that he was in secret league with Fateh Khan the Wazir, or, like Ranjit Singh, they wished to possess his person; and, in the course of 1812, he was seized in Peshawar by Jahan Dad Khan, Governor of Attock, and removed, first to that fort, and afterwards to Kashmir, \yhere he remained as a prisoner for more than twelve months. After the failure before Multan, Ranjit Singh and his minister, Mohkam Chand, were employed in bringing more fully under subjection various Sikh and Muhammadan chiefs in the plains, and also the hill Rajas of Bhimbar, Rajaori, and other places. In the month of February 1811, the Maharaja had reached the salt mines between the Jhelum and Indus, and hearing had crossed the latter river, he that Shah
Mahmud
moved in force to Rawalpindi, and sent to ascertain his The Shah had already deputed agents to intentions. state that his object was to punish or overawe the Governor of Kashmir, who had sided with his brother, Shah Shuja, then in the neighbourhood of Multan; and Ranjit Singh
meets
Shah
Mahmud, 1811.
The blind Shah Za-
man repairs for a time
to Lahore, 1811.
the two princes being satisfied, they had a meeting of ceremony before the Maharaja returned \o Lahore, to renew his confiscation of lands held by the many petty chiefs who had achieved independence or sovereignty while the country was without a general controlling
power, but who now fell unresistingly beiore the systematic activity of the young Maharaja.^ In the year 1811, the blind Shah Zaman crossed the Punjab, and was visited by Ranjit Singh. He took up his residence in Lahore for a time, and deputed his son Eunus to Ludhiana, where he was received with attention by Sir David Ochterlony; but as the prince perceived that he was not a welcome guest, his father 1 Sir. D. Ochterlony to Government, 10th Jan. and 26th Feb., 1810, and 27th April, 1812. Shah Shuja's 'Autobiography' chaps, xxiii-xxv, in the Calcutta Monthly Journal for 1839, and Murray, Ranjit Singh, pp. 79, 87, 92. Shah Shuja's second appearance before Multan in 1810-11 attempt is given mainly on Capt. Murray's authority, and the
not mentioned in the Shah's memoirs although it is admitted that he went into the Derajat of the Indus, i.e. to Dera Ismail
is
Khan, &c. 2 Murray, Ranjit Singh, p. 83, &c. The principal of the of the chiefs whose territories were usurped was Budh Singh, Singhpuria or Feizulapuria Misal. See also Sir D. Ochterlony to Government, 15th Oct., 1811.
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