The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c24.100

v3.c24.100

Mīrzā Haidar was now left with a handful of Mughuls at Srīnagar, and to oppose the united forces of the Kashmīr nobles, who were now returning from Bāramūla he hastily raised a force from the lower classes in the capital, who were neither well affected nor of any fighting value. With no more than a thousand men he marched from the city and attempted to counterbalance his moral and numerical inferiority by surprising the enemy in a night attack on his camp, but was slain in the darkness by some of his own men. The remnant of the Mughuls was pursued to the citadel of Srīnagar, and after enduring a siege of three days was fain to purchase, by a timely surrender, a safe retreat from Kashmīr.