The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.47

v4.c21.s1.47

Ahmad had been conducting a campaign in his own manner. After a siege of three days he had taken the Jāt fort of Ballabhgarh, twenty-four miles south of Delhi, and had put the garrison to the sword. He had sent another force to Muttra, where the massacre of a large assembly of unarmed pilgrims showed his zeal for Islām. Further enterprises of a like nature were stopped by the fierce heat of the Indian summer, and a pestilence, accompanied by great mortality, which broke out in his army decided him to return. Near Delhi he was met by ‘Ālamgīr II, who complained bitterly of his treatment by Ghāzī-ud-dīn. Ahmad Abdālī promoted Najīb Khān, who accompanied ‘Ālamgīr, to the rank of Amīr-ul-Umarā, and committed the helpless puppet to his protection. Najīb Khān received at the same time the title of Najīb-ud-Daula.