Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 33.12.9
A Translation of the Seir Mutaqherin (Haji Mustafa) 33.12.9
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33.12.9
and after having strongly recommended Aaly-goher's education as well as his person to his paternal care, she took the young Prince's hands and put them in my father's right hand. The young Prince, after this tender scene, went out, and took up his residence at the seat and garden of Tal-catorah, where he commenced assembling forces, most of the braves residing in the city making it a point to enlist under him. One of these was Mir-djaafer, the Hindostani, who had with him a number of men that bore a character both for bravery and fidelity. Ozm-aaly-qhan was another nobleman of the same family, with the late Hussein-aaly-qhan, and like him devoted to the service of an Imperial Prince, as we shall some day mention, if it pleases God. But as by this time the Vezir Umad-el-mulk had with the assistance of his Marhattas, made himself master of the Emperor's person, he forced the latter to send an order of recall to the Shah-zadah, or Imperial Prince, and not satisfied with that, he supported the letter by a General of his own, Seïf-eddin-aaly-qhan, the Cashmirian, at the head of ten thousand horse, and by a precise order to bring the Prince back by every means in his power — by persuasion, promises, intreaties, threats, and open force.