Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c21.s5.45
Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c21.s5.45
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v2.c21.s5.45
Above them all was Najib Khan Ruhela, who had been paid for his armed aid in 1753 by the grant of some jagirs in the upper Doab, but had illegally extended them by seizing many villages in the Saharanpur and Mirat districts. After 1760 Najib made himself the general protector of all the Afghan and Baluch landlords of these regions against their Jat and other enemies. Thus, the country north and west of Delhi was, for a semicircle 80 miles wide, dotted with a number of rebels’ dens like the castles of the robber barons of mediæval Italy.