Later Mughals v2.c14.s8.2

v2.c14.s8.2

This result was far from pleasing to the Muhammadans. Next day, a Friday, fifty or sixty thousand of them assembled at the great mosque usually known as the World's Wonder (Jahan-numa). With shouts and cries they hindered the recital of the khutba or prayer for the Emperor's welfare, next they seized two or three Hindus and forcibly circumcised them, and a great riot was on the point of commencing. Roshan-ud-daulah the third Bakhshi was sent to bring the chief Qazi and the muftis. To pacify them Muhammad Shah ordered the girl to be imprisoned, and two or three days after she was buried according to Muhammadan rites. "To make a long story short, she was killed, otherwise there would have been many headaches and much vexation." The poll-tax on un-believers was re-instituted as a sop to the Muhammadans; but in a week the chief Qazi was removed and other muftis appointed. The life of the poor young girl was as nothing compared to the ease and comfort of the Emperor and his advisers! [Kamwar, Rustam Ali 245a differs.]