Later Mughals v1.c6.s13.5

v1.c6.s13.5

Meanwhile Asad Khan, the Wakil-i-mutlaq, was ordered to move from Dihli to Agra and to take the necessary steps to reduce that part of the country to order. Khan Dauran (formerly Chin Qilich Khan) subahdar of Oudh, Khan Jahan (son of Khan Jahan Kokaltash) subahdar of Allahabad, and Muhammad Amin Khan, faujdar of Muradabad, were directed to move with half of their troops to reinforce Asad Khan. Sayyid Husain Khan, faujdar of Mewat, wrote to the subahdar of Dihli for reinforcements. He had only one hundred petty officers and their troops with him, and he required two or three lakhs of Rupees to enlist more men. Mhd. Yar Khan passed the letter on to Asad Khan on the ground that Amber and the other places threatened were not in the province of Dihli. Asad Khan granted one lakh of Rupees in cash and said his own troops should be sent as a reinforcement. [Khush-hal, 377a.] It was only on the 21st August 1708 that the full truth was known at the Emperor's camp. Rajah Jai Singh at the head of nearly 20,000 men, horse and foot, had made a night attack on the fort at Amber and had ejected Sayyid Husain Khan the imperial faujdar.