Riyaz al-salatin 102.4

102.4

As Sultan Shuj'a was occupied with his own affairs, the infidels of Assam finding an opportunity conquered the environs of mauza Kadi Bari, which is five stages from Jahangirnagar, and placing a garrison at the village of Tabsilah near Kadibari, raised the standard of daring and insurrection. Consequently, when the Khan-i-Khanan reached Jahangirnagar, after devoting himself for some time to administrative business, he collected war-vessels and artillery and other armaments, and leaving Ihtisham Khan to protect Jahangirnagar (Dacca) and its environs, and appointing Rai Bhogati Das Shujai to charge of financial and internal affairs, in the 4th year of Emperor Aurangzeb's accession, corresponding to 1072 A.H., he set out on an expedition towards the conquest of the Kingdoms of Kuch Behar and Assam, sending forward by the river-route, artillery, &c, and himself pushing on by land with a force of twenty thousand efficient cavalry and numerous infantry, via a hill which was frontier of the Imperial dominions. In a short time, he subdued the Kingdom of Kuch Behar up to Gauhati. After this, he pushed on with his forces to conquer Assam. In the meanwhile, the Emperor's order came, directing him to march to Arrakan, in order to rescue the children and ladies of the household of Shah Shuj'a from distress and from imprisonment at the hands of the Arrakanese, and to send them up to the Imperial presence.