The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.72

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When, after the sack of Delhi and the massacre at Muttra, he returned in 1757 to Afghānistān, he left as his governor in the Punjab his son Tīmūr, with Jahān Khān as his guardian and adviser. Jahān Khān appointed as governor of the Jullundur Dūāb the restless plotter Ādīna Beg Khān, who had served many masters and betrayed all. Shortly after his appointment he was summoned to Lahore in the ordinary course of official business, but, fearing to trust himself within his master’s reach, fled into the hills. Ādīna Beg Khān then entered into a conspiracy with the Sikhs who, with the help of a detachment of his troops, attacked Jullundur, and expelled the new governor. Raghunāth Rāo, the Peshwā’s brother, who was now in the neighbourhood of Delhi, also came to his assistance and, undeterred by the punishment which had followed previous intervention in the Punjab, marched northward in April, 1758. He defeated and captured the governor of Sirhind and in May entered Lahore as a conqueror while Tīmūr and Jahān Khān fled across the Indus. The Punjab to the Chenāb and as far south as the confluence of the Indus and the Panjnad, with the transfluvial tract of Dera Ghāzī Khān, fell into the hands of the Marāthās. Ādīna Beg Khān was appointed governor on promising to pay an annual tribute of 7,500,000 rupees and Raghunāth Rāo retired, as the rainy season was approaching. Leaving Jānkojī Sindia, nephew of Dattājī, in the neighbourhood of Delhi with instructions to overrun Rājputāna and to control generally Marāthā interests in northern India, he returned to the Deccan, where his recent adventure was the subject of much unfavourable criticism. In September, 1758, Ādīna Beg Khān died and Jānkojī Sindia appointed Sābājī Bhonsle as governor of the Punjab.