[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Fall of the Mughal Empire](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932) › v2.c29.11 # Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c29.11 Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c29.11 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29.11) The news reached Ahmad Shah in Afghanistan and he hastened to the rescue of his officers in the Panjab, with a lightly-equipped cavalry force, accustomed to rapid marching. The Sikhs were then engaged in the siege of Jandiala, a city twelve miles east of Amritsar. It was the stronghold of the Niranjani sect,\* who may be equally well described as dissentient Sikhs or Hindu deists,—their religion being a mixture of the tenets and rites of both these great religions. "In the conflict between the Sikhs and Ahmad Shah Abdali, the Niranjanis aided the latter . . with information. In revenge for this the Sikhs invested Jandiala. Akāldās, the Jandiala guru, sent off a sawār post haste to Ahmad Shah, who was . . . at Rohtas. He returned to their aid with a force of cavalry." \[Amritsar Gaz. 165.\] - [Previous: v2.c29.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29.10) - [Next: v2.c29.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29.12) - [Up: v2.c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v2.c29.11) · Pramāṇa