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∗ At the end of the futile siege of Allahabad fort by Ahmad Khān Bangash (Jan.-April, 1751), his Afghān soldiers set fire to the defenceless and unoffending city of Allahabad, from the Khuldābād gate to the foot of the fort and plundered it, carrying away four thousand women of high and well-born families into captivity. Only the Dāira of Shaikh Afzal Allahabadi and mahalla Dariābād, whose inhabitants were all Afghāns, were spared. (Siyar, iii. 34.)