Later Mughals v2.c13.s13.3

v2.c13.s13.3

That same day the march for Dihli was resumed. Disregarding the attacks of the Mewatis and the Jats, who daily plundered their baggage and slew their camp-followers, they pushed on until they came to Faridabad, twenty-one miles from Dihli. Shujaat-ullah Khan, son-in-law of Abdullah Khan, Murtaza Khan, and Sita Ram, a man in the Wazir's confidence, were sent forward in haste to the capital with orders to consult Najm-ud-din Ali Khan, the Wazir's brother, and select one of the imprisoned Princes of the house of Taimur for elevation to the throne. Disturbances had broken out at once in the jagirs held by the Sayyids, their agents were ejected, and the cultivators refused the instalments of rent due on the autumn harvest.[*]