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and submitted an unqualified apology and prayed for forgiveness;
Farukhsiyar treated him with mercy and also presented him a robe of
honour. 5
On 11 February 1713, Farukhsiyar appointed Abdus Samad Khan as
the Governor of Jammu and gave him instructions to take action against
the Sikhs. On 12 February, he was appointed Faujdar of Doaba also. On
14 February Farukhsiyar promised to appoint Abdus Samad Khan as
the Governor of Lahore too; the Emperor told him that he would have
to get the Forts of Sadhura and Lohgarh freed from the Sikhs. Abdus
Samad Khan immediately set out for action against the Sikhs.
Now, Farukhsiyar began appointing new officials. He appointed
Zabardast Khan (grandson of Amir-ul-Umra Ali Mardan Khan, Shah
Jahani) as the Governor of Lahore (replacing Inayatullah Khan). On the
26 th of February, he appointed Iradatmand Khan as the Governor of
Eimanabad, Ahmad Khan as the Governor of Gujrat and Saadat Khan as
the Governor of Kashmir. Saadat Khan was also given mansab of six
thousand soldiers. Farukhsiyar decided to befriend the rulers of Jaipur
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and Jodhpur as well. On the 2 of March 1713, Farukhsiyar wrote letters
to Rajput rajas Ajit Singh (of Jodhpur) and Jai Singh Sawai (Jaipur/Amber)
granting each of them mansab of six thousand soldiers and five thousand
horse. 6
In fact, Ajit Singh had offered to marry his daughter Raj Inder Kanwar
to Farukhsiyar. On the 6 th of July Sayyad Hussain Ali brought this girl
from Jodhpur to the Sarai of Ali Vardi Khan. She reached Delhi on the
th
13 of September. On the 27 of September, she embraced Islam. After
th
this, the ceremony of betrothal was performed. When this marriage
ceremony was held, Farukhsiyar was suffering from piles, so the marriage
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could not be consummated for two months. Farukhsiyar was treated
by William Hamilton, an English doctor (to reward the services given by
the doctor, Farukhsiyar granted the English right to exemption from
custom duty in Bengal). 8
Farukhsiyar was so much angry with Jahandar Shah that he issued
an order proclaiming that “references to Jahandar’s rule should be
erased from history and the period of his (Farukhsiyar’s) reign should
be considered from the date of his proclamation of Emperorship in Patna