History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.19

c8.19

The vulgar section of the public and the vagabonds who had remained in the town brought the goods of the inhabitants out of their houses and destroyed them. Thus, Yahyā distinctly mentions two migrations—one of the notables of the state in 727 A.H. and the other of the inhabitants of Dihli about two years later, i.e., in 729 A.H., designed solely as a punitive measure against the refractory people of the Doab, and he is copied by Badāoni whose account is a faithful reproduction of that given by him.¹⁰ Firishta, who has also copied the *Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi* to a large extent in the matter of chronology and also of the arrangement and narration of facts, mentions two migrations of the whole population en masse from Dihli to Daulatabad.¹¹ He does not slavishly follow the