Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c10.s4.13

v1.c10.s4.13

The Afghān tribesmen flocked to Ahmad Abdāli’s standards in the hope of finding a national hero who would lead them on to a career of successful rapine as in the days of Sultān Mahmud of Ghazni. The various bodies of Nādir’s soldiers scattered in different places in the Panjāb and Afghānistān were drawn together by Taqi Khān Shirāzi (Beglar-Begi) and induced to enter Abdāli’s service. In these ways a band of 40,000 hardy warriors (only a minority of them being Qizilbāshes) soon gathered under Ahmad.