Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.15

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The other story is about the devoted officers and adherents of Humayun. It is related that once Kamran took possession of the fortress of Kabul by surprise when Humayun and his adherents were out of town. When they besieged the fortress on their return, Kamran, who held the families of the besiegers in his custody, threatened to take their lives. Qaracha Khan, It was on account of this deep appreciation of the ancient Hindu tradition that he Mughal Emperor Humayun, even in the extremities of exile and poverty, trusted his life more readily in the hands of the forty Indian guards, who followed him in all his misfortunes, than in those of his blood relations.¹