Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c30.s3.50

v2.c30.s3.50

Three months later, Saifuddin Muhammad and other officers came from Delhi fort and interviewed the Emperor on 15th November, at Nabiganj, and Mahadji Sindhia did the same on the 18th. The royal progress to the capital was resumed shortly after, and the Court reached Surajpur (15 m. n. w. of Sikandrabad) on New Year's Day, 1772. The Empress Mother, the Crown Prince and other princes came out of Delhi to Gharroli (4½ miles south-east of Shahdara) and welcomed the Emperor in advance (3rd January.) Accompanied by them, he rode into his capital at a quarter past eight on Monday, the sixth of January, and entered the palace fort by the Delhi Darwaza. The day on which the monarch's exile ended happened to be exactly the close of the Muslim month of fasting and the eve of the Id rejoicings.*