Muntakhab al-lubab 188.11

188.11

As the news (of Husain 'Ali's death) spread, the Mewattis and the turbulent zamindars rose up and gathered round Saiyid 'Abdu-llah on every side. They attacked the baggage and tents in the rear, and plundered whatever they could lay hands on. A A detachment of the discouraged army was sent against them, but without success. A party of men who were with the Saiyid's tent equipage were killed along with their commanding officers. A convoy that was coming from Dehli, with property belonging to Husain 'Ali Khan, was attacked at the sarai of Jahana, two or three kos from Saiyid 'Abdu-llah's army, and it and the property and the wives of the men all fell into the hands of the marauders. In the jagirs belonging to Saiyid 'Abdu-llah, and in those of all the Saiyids, and of the officials and collectors of the two brothers, wherever the news came, the rent-paying raiyats and the turbulent zamindars seized the opportunity and turned out the collectors of the jagirdars. Before order was restored in the State, the produce of the kharif harvest had for the most part gone into the hands of the raiyats.