Muntakhab al-lubab 183.3

183.3

Mahbub Khan proceeded to the Hindu quarter, and burnt and gutted the houses which remained. Again he proceeded to the house of Mir Ahmad Khan, and dragged out of it with insult Majlis Rai and a number of other persons who had taken refuge there. He and his followers cut off their ears and noses, circumcised them, and in some instances cut off the organ of generation. Another day they went tumultuously to the great mosque, degraded Mir Ahmad Khan from his office of deputy of the subadar, and, having given the prime cause of the disturbance the title of Dindar Khan, they appointed him to act as ruler of the Musulmans, and to enforce the commands of the law and the decisions of the kazis until a new deputy subadar should come from the Court. For five months Mir Ahmad Khan was deprived of power, and remained in retirement. Dindar Khan acted as ruler, and, taking his seat in the mosque, discharged the Government business. Upon intelligence of this outbreak reaching Court, Mumin Khan was sent to act as deputy of 'Inayatu-llah Khan, the Subadar. * * At the end of Shawwal he halted three kos from Kashmir. Mahbub Khan was ashamed of his unrighteous deeds, so he went to Khwaja 'Abdu-llah, who was highly respected in Kashmir, and begged him to go out with a number of the principal and most respectable Muhammadans to meet the new deputy, and bring him into the city with honour.