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Indian Historical Records Commission. Proceedings of Meetings. Second Meeting Held at Lahore. January 1920

1920

The period from 1707 onwards is full of wars ofsuccession domestic intrigues and factions of almost daily occurrence revolts and struggles for mastery between various claimants to power the dreaded advance of the Maratha the growth of the Khalsa the visitation of Nadir the repeated excursions of.Ahmad Shah Abdali and the slow but sure development of the power of the East India Company. [...] The story of Muhammad Shah's reign ends with the expedition against Ali Muhammad Khan Rohilla by the Emperor in person and the submission of that chief the assassination of Amir Khan the civil war between the sons of Zakariya Khan Governor of Lahore in the 25th and 26th years of the reign and the first invasion of Ahmad Shah Abdali his defeat at the hands of Prince Ahmad of the death of Muh [...] The sad tale of Ahmad Shah's reign is followed by a brief narrative of some notable poets of India the elevation of Alamgir II death of Safdar Jang succession of Shuja-ud-Daulab the death of the Governor of tawah at the hands of the Marathas Gliazi-ud-Din Khan's advance upon Lahore death of Ali Vardi Khan' Siraj-ud-Daulah's accession the quarrel with the English and his capture of Calcutta [...] We next hear of the battle of Btixar the treason of Sombre Reinhardt—the German merce-nary of Mir Qasim— and the disgrace and imprisonment of Mir Qasim by order of Shuja-ud-Daulah the capture of the fort of Rohtas by Captain Goddard the death of Mir Jafar the installation of Najm-ud-Daulah and the appointment of Muhamad Riza Khan patron of the author. [...] The sad tale of Shah Alam's misfortunes after the death of Zulfikar-ud-Daulah Mirza Najaf Khan the struggle for mastery betweon various nobles.of the Court the defeat of Mahadji Sindhia at the hands of the Rajputs the flight of the heir-apparent Mirza Jawan Bakht to Benares and the notorious atrocities of the traitorous Ghulam Qadir are next presented to us in their touching details.
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