Muntakhab al-tawarikh 43.2.6

43.2.6

It should be remembered that this statement has been copied as it stands from the Mubarak-shahi, but I cannot say whether the author of that work has been guilty of exaggeration or if in reality the facts were as stated. Fourthly.—The desertion of Dihli, and the population of Daulatabad, because after Dihli was laid waste they brought people from the towns and other places into that city and populated it, and then again removed them thence to Daulatabad, so that all their hereditary estates and family holdings, and all the property and effects they possessed were wasted and dissipated, so that they never saw anything more of them; Fifthly.—The massacre of the eighty thousand cavalry in a body in the hills of Himachal, and the consequent desolation of their families. Sixthly.—The daily occurrence of rebellion and mutiny in every place where people were in dread of their lives, some of them fell in battle but the greater number were put to death with their families upon false charges, so that in every way that wretched country was being ruined. Seventhly.—The blood thirstiness of the Sultan, and his system of Government of his people, which made Saiyids, ‘Ulama, Shaikhs, ragamuffins and scoundrels, artisans, peasants, and soldiers, all alike in his eyes.