One day Majlis Ráí, a respected Hindú of Kashmír, went out with a party to ramble in the fields and gardens, and they feasted Brahmans. Mahbúb Khán collected ten or twelve thousand Musulmáns, came upon them unawares, and began to beat, bind and kill them. Majlis Ráí escaped, and fled with some others to Ahmad Khán. Mahbúb Khán, with all his followers, went to the house of Majlis Ráí and the Hindú quarter, and began to plunder and to fire the houses. The Hindús and Musulmáns who interfered to prevent this were killed and wounded. After that they proceeded to the house of Mír Ahmad Khán, where they set to work beating, throwing stones and bricks, and shooting arrows and bullets. Every man they found they detained and subjected to various indignities. Some they killed, others they wounded and plundered. Mír Ahmad Khán for a day and night was unable to drive them from his house or to stop their violence, but had to employ many artifices to escape from them. Next day he got together a force, and, with Mír Sháhúr Khán Bakhshí and other officials, they took horse and went against Mahbúb Khán. The rioters collected, as on the preceding day, and resisted Ahmad Khán. A party got in his rear and burnt the bridge over which he had crossed. They set fire to both sides of the street through which he had passed, and from in front and from the roofs and walls of the houses they discharged arrows and muskets and cast stones and bricks. Women and children flung filth, dirt, and whatever they could lay hands on. A fierce fight continued, in which * * and several others were killed or wounded. Mír Ahmad Khán was in a great strait, for he could neither retire nor advance; so he was obliged to ask for mercy, and escaped from his dangerous position amid volleys of gibes and insults.
Mahbúb Khán proceeded to the Hindú quarter, and burnt and gutted the houses which remained. Again he proceeded to the house of Mír Ahmad Khán, and dragged out of it with insult Majlis Ráí and a number of other persons who had taken refuge there. He and his followers cut off their ears and noses, circumcised them, and in some instances cut off the organ of generation. Another day they went tumultuously to the great mosque, degraded Mír Ahmad Khán from his office of deputy of the súbadár, and, having given the prime cause of the disturbance the title of Díndár Khán, they appointed him to act as ruler of the Musulmáns, and to enforce the commands of the law and the decisions of the kázís until a new deputy súbadár should come from the Court. For five months Mír Ahmad Khán was deprived of power, and remained in retirement. Díndár Khán acted as ruler, and, taking his seat in the mosque, discharged the Government business.
Upon intelligence of this outbreak reaching Court, Múmin Khán was sent to act as deputy of 'Ináyatu-llah Khán, the Súbadár. * * At the end of Shawwál he halted three kos from Kashmír. Mahbúb Khán was ashamed of his unrighteous deeds, so he went to Khwája 'Abdu-llah, who was highly respected in Kashmír, and begged him to go out with a number of the principal and most respectable Muhammadans to meet the new deputy, and bring him into the city with honour. * * Khwája 'Abdu-llah advised him in a friendly way to go to Mír Sháhúr Khán Bakhshí, and apologize for what had passed. If he did so, they would go out with him to meet the deputy. In accordance with this advice, Mahbúb Khán went to the house of Sháhúr Khán, and having made a statement to him, rose to depart, alleging he had some necessary business to attend to. The bakhshí, acting on the Khwája's advice, had called a number of the people from the Charbelí and Kahkarán quarters of the city, and concealed them about his house. They watched for Mahbúb Khán, and fell upon him unawares. First, before his eyes, they ripped up the bellies of his two young boys, who always accompanied him, and they killed him with great cruelty.
Next day the Musulmáns went to the Charbelí quarter, to exact retaliation for blood. This quarter was inhabited by Shí'as. There they began to beat, to bind, to kill, and to burn the houses. For two days the fight was kept up, but the assailants then prevailed. Two or three thousand people who were in that quarter, including a large number of Mughal travellers, were killed with their wives and families. Property to the value of lacs was plundered, and the war raged for two or three days. It is impossible to commit to writing all that I have heard about this outbreak. After this destruction, the rioters went to the houses of the kází and the bakhshí. Sháhúr Khán concealed himself and the kází escaped in disguise. They pulled down the kází's house to the foundations, and carried the bricks of it away in their hands. Múmin Khán, after entering the city, sent Mír Ahmad Khán under an escort to Ímanábád, and then had to take severe measures with the people of Kashmír.
[Text, vol. ii. p. 873.] Diláwar 'Alí Khán, bakhshí of Husain 'Alí Khán, who had been sent with six or seven thousand horse against the Rája of Búndí, having hastily increased them to twelve or thirteen thousand, crossed the Nerbadda. Various rumours reached Nizámu-l Mulk, and according to one, Diláwar 'Alí Khán had reached Hándiyá. Nizámu-l Mulk prepared to encounter him. The plan of 'Álam 'Alí Khán (the acting súbadár) was to enlist as many Mahrattas as he could, to gather together the great faujdárs, and to march from Aurangábád as soon as he heard of the near approach of Diláwar 'Alí Khán. Nizámu-l Mulk would thus be placed between two armies. * *
[Text, vol. ii. p. 875.] Nizámu-l Mulk, on receiving intelligence that 'Álam 'Alí Khán had taken the field, marched from Burhánpúr to oppose him. He crossed the Táptí and encamped towards the east. When he heard of the advance of Diláwar 'Alí Khán, he resolved to meet him first. He sent his family to the fort of Ásír, and then began his march against the enemy. On arriving within two or three kos of Ratanpúr, and sixteen or seventeen from Burhánpúr, he encamped about two kos distance from his adversary. To avoid shedding the blood of Musulmáns, he sent conciliatory messages to Diláwar 'Alí, deprecating battle, but without effect. On the 16th Sha'bán, 1132 A.H. (11th May, 1720), both sides drew out their forces for the struggle. [Dispositions for and progress of the battle.] Diláwar 'Alí Khán, mounted on an elephant, fought resolutely, * * but he was struck by a musket-ball and killed. The army of the Bárhas then turned to flee; but the Rájpúts, Rája Bhím, and Rája Gaj Singh disdained to escape, and fought with great valour. They and three or four hundred other Rájpúts, many Bárha Saiyid officers and others, altogether four or five thousand men, were killed. The day after the battle, intelligence came that 'Álam 'Alí Khán had arrived at the tank of Hartála, seventeen kos from Burhánpúr. Nizámu-l Mulk sent Mutawasal Khán with a force of three thousand horse to protect the city and the people.
[Text, vol. ii. p. 882.] When the news of the defeat and death of Diláwar 'Alí Khán reached the Saiyid brothers, it greatly disturbed and perplexed them. Every day some new plan was formed. Now it was proposed that both should go to the Dakhin, and take the Emperor with them. Then that Saiyid Husain 'Alí should go to the Dakhin and that Saiyid 'Abdu-llah should proceed to Dehlí with the Emperor. * * Every week and every month the tents of the Emperor and of the two brothers moved in different directions, and their councils were distracted.