Later Mughals v1.c6.s16.2

v1.c6.s16.2

∗ For the Sikh account, see Mac. iv. 363—387. On the other hand Ijad (Fragment, f. 13a) says that Alamgir had issued the farman for Tegh Bahadur's arrest but the order was kept secret. He was made prisoner by Dilawar Khan faujdar of Sarhind when encamped near Rupar, intending to proceed to the Ganges to bathe. When brought to Court he refused to become a Muhammadan and was executed. I have not traced any good Muhammadan account of Tegh Bahadur's capture and execution. By that I mean an account of a contemporary or nearly contemporary writer. Trumpp relies on J. D. Cunningham's History, pp. 61, 62. He, I find, depends in turn on the Siyar-ul-mutakherin (Briggs 112), a far from contemporary work, for it was written in 1783 (Dowson and Elliot, viii. 196). I do not know the source of Ghulam Husain's information.