The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.42
The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c23.42
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c23.42
*Jūhar*. This well-known Hindū practice of killing women and children to prevent their falling into the enemy’s hand was once, I find, proposed for adoption by a small body of Mughals under Khwājah Asa‘d Khān (son of Mubāriz Khān), when surrounded hy an overwhelming body of Mahrattahs (*Aḥwāl-i-khawāqin*, fol. 194*a*).