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Title: Akbar the Great Mogul, 1542-1605
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Vincent Arthur, 1848-1920
Subjects: Akbar, Emperor of Hindustan, 1542-1605 Mogul Empire India -- History 1526-1765
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bu-1 Fathwas also directed to enter the same region in the neighbour-hood of the Karakar Pass further east. Ultimately, all thethree commanders united their forces at Chakdara, justinside the Suwat boundary, and on the north side of theSuwat river. Violent disputes then broke out between the I i generals. Raja Birbal being unwilling to recognize ZainKhan as his superior. Zain Khan, the only one of thethree who had any knowledge of the military art, advisedthat Chakdara should be held in strength while the tribes- f men were being reduced by punitive expeditions. The Raja and the Hakim, on the other hand, agreed that they were not required to occupy the country, and that they should f I make their way back to Akbar at Attock. The advicegiven by Zain Khan that the withdrawal should be effectedthrough the Malakhand Pass was ignored, and his colleaguesresolved to retire through the Karakar and Malandaraidefiles. 3^ Sketch Map to illustrate the campaigii against the Ytisufzi m 1585-1586 ii
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Note:- The disaster to theimperialists occurredin the Malandarai Pass. KSMattin., WARS AND ANNEXATIONS 235 They soon found reason to regret their rash decision,he retirement through the Karakar Pass, which had beenI managed, was grievously harassed by the tribesmen ;lit after passing the crest of the Malandarai Pass further)uth the retirement became a rout. Nearly 8,000 of thenperialists, something hke half of the force, perished, andtily a shattered remnant rejoined Akbar at Attock in theliddle of February 1586. Both Zain Khan and the Hakim survived. Raja Birbalas killed. He seems to have frankly run away in a vainttempt to save his Hfe.i Akbar grieved bitterly over the»ss of his old friend, and was particularly distressed becauseis body could not be found and cremated according to thetes of Hinduism and the Di^^ne Faith , of which theaja was a disciple. The accident that the Rajas bodyas never recovered gave rise to stories that he had escapedive, which Akbar was incUned to believe

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