When the news of Mun‘im Khān, Khān Khānān’s death reached Delhi, Emperor Akbar appointed Ḥusain Qulī Khān Turkman, after bestowing on him the title of Khān Jahān,* to the office of Governor of Bengal. And when Khān Jahān reached the frontiers of Bengal, Khwājah Muzaffar Alī Turbati,* who was a servant of Bahrām* Khān, and, obtaining the title of Muzaffar Khān, was Governor of Behār, and had come for the conquest of the Rohtas fort, joined him with the troops of Behār, Tirhut and Hajīpur, &c. And all the Imperialists uniting their forces, advanced to storm the fort of Teliagadhi and Sakrigali. Dāud Khān also with a formidable army advanced to Akmahal,* which lies midway between Gadhī and Tandah, to fight with Khān Jahān. But Khān Jahān, by delivery of the first assault, stormed Gadhī, slaughtered about 1,500 Afghāns, and advanced towards the site where Dāud Khān was entrenched. When the distance between was covered, on the 15th Muḥarram, 983 A.H., which was a Thursday, both the contending hosts arrayed their forces in battle-rank.

Kālā Pāhār who was one of the renowned generals of Dāud Khān, attacking the right wing of Khān Jahān,* spread consterna­tion, and Muzaffar Khān assaulting the left wing of Dāud Khān, caused it to reel back, and simultaneously, Khān Jahān assaulted the centre of Dāud Khān, and a great battle commenced.

When the eagle of victory and triumph cast its shadow on the army of Emperor Akbar, and Dāud Khān fled from the battle-field, the heroes of Khān Jahān’s army, not abandoning Dāud’s pursuit, followed him up, and at length Dāud Khān was captured, and brought to Khān Jahān. The latter, considering Dāud’s life to be a source of disturbance and insurrection, ordered him to be killed.*

Junaid Khān, son of Dāud Khān, who receiving a mortal wound, had fled from the battle-field, some two or three days subsequently also died. Khān Jahān reduced to subjection as much of the country as was in the possession of the Khān-i-Khanān, and sent all the elephants captured from the Afghāns, together with other booty, to Emperor Akbar. And Muzaffar Khān, striking up the kettle-drum of return, proceeded to Patnā, and in 984 A.H., turned to the conquest of the fort of Rohtas.*

When Muzaffar Khān planned to return to Patna, on the way he detached Muḥammad Ma’ṣum Khān* to conquer Ḥusain Khān* Afghān who was in those parts, and he causing Ḥusain Khān to flee, came to the Parganna which was his jagir, and entered the fort. And Kālā Pahār coming with 800 corps of cavalry, besieged Ma’ṣum Khān. The latter seeing a breach made, battered down the rear-wall of the fort, sallied out, and gave battle to Kālā Pāhār. As ill-luck would have it, in the heat of warfare, the war-elephant of Kālā Pāhār, with its trunk, flung down Ma’ṣum Khāu’s horse, and threw down Ma’ṣum Khān on the ground. In the meantime, the Mughal archers hit the elephant-driver with the arrow, and the elephant, being without its driver, turned round and attacked its own army, and killed and trampled down numerous Afghāns. From this cause, the Afghāns were vanquished, Kālā Pāhār was killed, and his elephant turned back. The province of Orissa and Katak-Benares, the whole kingdom of Bengal and Behār, by the efforts of Khān Jahān, were annexed to the Empire of Akbar; and the fortune of the kings of Bengal terminated, and no other king in that kingdom thenceforth minted coins, or had the Khutbah read after his name. And the leading Afghān grandees, like Ḥusain Khān and Kālā Pāhār, as related above, were totally extirpated, and some fled to the jungles in the tracts of Bengal.* In the year 987 A.H., Khān Jahān died,* and the Afghāns, whose names and traces had been lost, now issued out from all corners, and tried to re-occupy and re-conquer the country. Amongst these, one principal Afghān commander, named ‘Osmān Khān, combining with other Afghāns, raised an insurrection. Emperor Akbar appointed Khān ‘Azim Mīrzā Kokah,* together with other princi­pal Omra, to the Government of Bengal and Behār. And he made meedworthy efforts to destroy and extirpate the Afghāns. And when he did not succeed in completely extirpating them, Shāhbāz Khān* came with re-inforcements, as an auxiliary to the Imperialists; and then engagements ensued with ‘Osmān Khān, The ferocious Imperialists did not stay their hands from the slaughter, capture and extirpation of the insurgent Afghāns. In short, in the life-time of Akbar, the fortune of the Afghāns declined, but as their extirpation was not completed by the time of the death of Emperor Akbar, which took place in 1014 A.H., ‘Osmān Khān rising again, re-sharpened his sword. And mobilising nearly 20,000 Afghāns, he had the Khutba in that tract read after his name, and from the pride of being at the head of numerous followers, he became aggressive. And taking no account of the Imperial officers who were stationed in this country, he raised his hand of conquest on the Imperial dominions.

Now I adorn my rarity-depicting pen with the chronicle of the accounts of the Nāzims of Bengal, who were honoured with the khill‘at of the Nizāmat of Bengal from the lofty presence of the Chagtai* Emperors, and who raising the standard of authority, freed this country from the weeds and thorns of rebellions.