The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c11.s2.5

c11.s2.5

Guns of European make (tufang-i-farang) were much prized, but were only found in the possession of the greatest nobles. It was with one of these, as Mḥd Qāsim, Lāhorī, tells us, ‘Ibratnāmah, 352, that a slave seated behind his master, Ḥaidar Quli Khān, Mīr Ātash, shot Sayyad Ghairat Khān on the 8th Oct. 1720, in the onset made upon Muḥammad Shāh’s tents immediately after the assassination of the Sayyad’s uncle, Ḥusain ‘Alī Khān, Bārhah.