History of India From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
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The streets of Delhi became the scene of a civil war between * The Rohillas were a colony of Yusiifzai and other Afglian tribes, which had lately conquered the country east of tlie Ganges, from Oudh up to the Himalayas, V 170 HISTORY OF INDIA the wazir and his new rival Ghazi-ud-din, grandson of Chin Kilich and son of the late wazir. For six months the battle-cries of Persian and Mughal, Shiah and Sunni, resounded through the city. Holkar and his Marathas fought for the Mughal leader against th...eir Hindu country- men the Jats, whose Raja, Suraj Mai, had espoused the cause of Safdar Jang. At length the latter withdrew from a fruitless struggle into his own province beyond the Ganges. The emperor, however, soon wearied of the burden he had brought upon his own shoulders, when he plotted with the youthful grandson of Chin Kilich against the murderer of his favourite eunuch. In the midst of an effort to shake off his new tyrant, he fell into the hands of Ghazi-ud-din himself, who straightway put out his eyes, and set up as emperor in his stead a son of Jahandar Shah, under the title of Alamgir II.
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