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Title: A history of the Deccan
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Gribble, J. D. B. (James Dunning Baker), d. 1906 Pendlebury, Mary (Gribble), Mrs
Subjects: Deccan (India) -- History
Publisher: London : Luzac and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ody struggle taking place inside the citadel walls, whilstoutside the citizens were assembled in a state of excitement.The Queen had only a few adherents, but the guards madecommon cause with her, and defended the palace most ob-stinately. Whilst the fight was going on, a party of Deccaneematchlock men managed to clind) the wall and afford reliefto the Queen and her ))arty. The Queen and the Sultansfoster-aunt, Dilshad Aga, the latter Avitli a veil over her head,animated and encouraged the defenders by their presence andpromises. Sufder Khan now brought up cannon, witli whichhe managed to break down the gate, but as he was on the pointof entering, the gallant Dilshad fired a volley of arrows and gunshot into his party. One of these arrows wounded SufderKhan in the eye, and in order to recover himself he tookrefuge under a wall. It so happened, however, that the youngKing was seated on the wall just above the place, and, seeinghis enemy beneath him, he succeeded in rolling over a large
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BIJAPUR FROM 1509-15.^54. I8MAEL ADIL SHAH. UU stone, whicli, liittinp; Sufder Klinn on the liead, killed him onthe spot. As soon as tlieir leader had fallen, his troops tookto their heels. The city was then cleared of the rebels, andthe mutiny was at an end, thanks to the bravery of the Queenand Dilshad Aga, and to the ready wittedness of the youngSultan. When everything was (juiet, the young Sultan wentto the mosque to return thanks for his escape, and then con-ducted the funeral procession of his foster-father Yusuf to thetomb of a saint outside the city, by whose side he was buried,and eventually a dome was raised over the graves of both.During the rest of his reign, the Sultan went once a monthto visit the tomb of the faithful Yiisnf (1511-12). Ismael Shah was now about seventeen years of age, andno opposition was made to him on the score of age. AmeerBereed, on hearing of the failure of the plot, at once raisedthe siege of Gulburga, which he had attacked, and retired toBieder. T

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