Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c36.s8.24

v3.c36.s8.24

On 23rd September 1778 he sent his lieutenant Bahrām Quli Khan to welcome Sāhib Singh and some other Sikh sardars who had encamped near the Shālimār gardens north-west of Delhi. Then he persuaded the Emperor to confer the title of Najib-ud-daulah II on Mallu Khan, a younger son of the great Najib and now a Sikh protege, as a counterpoise to Zābita Khan who had become an adherent of Mirzā Najaf, (28th Sept.) The day after this, Ahad himself visited the Sikh sardars in the garden of Yaqub Ali Khan and gave them robes of honour in the Emperor's name. The pampered allies of the impotent Government celebrated the Dasaharā day (1st Oct.) by riding out and demolishing a mosque at "the Guru's bangla" near Rikābganj and ravaging the cultivated fields. [DC.] "Jihad in the path of Allah" is contagious.