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YA WESTERN PART OF OUR KINGDOM TO THE 2 MUGHALS ... YOUR MAJESTY, HOWY | KNOW. BUT THE COULD YOU? THE — LIVES OF MY SUBJECTS, HAPPINESS OF YOUR { ARE DEARER TO ME, WELL 1M 4 INOW. AND ALL IS NOT LOST. MIR JUMLA NO DOUBT HAS HAD A HEAD ‘START. BUT TLL CATCH UP; AND BRING THE WHEN HE REACHED THE OUTPOST AT KALIABAR — THE. PRINCESS WAS IN THE ADVANCE PARTY. BY NOW IT AGE | must Have REACHED DACCAR. “| 2 Me By THEN | AM LATE. BUT LL STILL GET MIR JUMLA. YOU CANNOT, SIR. HE’S DEAD. HIS. MEN ARE CARRYING HIS BODY HOME. THE PRINCESS 1S GONE AND MIR UUMLA IS DEAD. 1AM LEFT WITH ONLY THE HUMILIATION. MY LAND UNDER MUGHAL HEELS! 0H, THE SHAME OF IT! BUT ONE DAY, I'LL HAVE My REVENGE. VAYADHWAUA SINGHA TRIED TO PIECE TOGETHER HIS SHATTERED STATE. BUT THE STRAIN TOOK HIN TO HIS DEATHBED.HE TURNED TO CHAKRADHWAUA , HIS HEIR-API eae MY ONLY REGRET 1S THAT VY a EI, DICTATE TERMS TOUS. b/) t ey Ge MAY YOU SUCCEED IN GETTING RID OF THEM! On WE PROMISE TO WIPE OUT THE STAIN ON THE HONOUR OF OUR LAND, YOUR MAUESTY. & NOW | MAY DIE IN PEACE. ONE DAY, AFTER CHAKRADHWAUJA SINGHA ASCENDED THE THRONE ,A MUGHAL ENVOY CALLED ON HIM THE EMPEROR IS PLEASED TO PRESENT THE KHELAT* TO HIS VASSAL.HE WANTS YOU TO DON THIS IN * ROBE OF HONOUR THIS IMPUDENCE. i; COULD COST YOU L YOUR HEAD! i / [ but SINCE you ARE A MERE MESSENGER, YOUR LiFE SHALL NOW GO BACK WITH THIS MESSAGE: WE ARE NOT VASSALS OF THE MUGHAL EMPEROR. AFTER THE ENVOY HAD LEFT — z ‘YOUR MAJESTY, NO MORE TIME SHOULD BE LOST. WE MUST DRIVE THE MUGHALS OUT OF WESTERN ATAN BUREGOHAIN, THE PRIME MINISTER AS THEY WERE GETTING READY FOR INTERVENED. THE FINAL BATTLE — WE NEED A GENERAL WHOSE LEADERSHIP WILL COMMAND LOYALTY AND INSPIRE CONFIDENCE. LACHIT WILL BE THE IDEAL CHOICE, YOUR, MAJESTY. ASK HIM TO SEE ME “TOMORROW, — i] SF A x AG Be YOU SAW WHAT HE DID.NO WARRIOR WORTH HIS NAME WILL BROOK THIS INSULT. IT WAS A MATTER OF HONOUR, YOUR MAJESTY. THE GUARD WAS CARRYING QUT MY INSTRUCTIONS. 1 WANTED TO TEST YOU AND YOU HAVE PROVED YOUR WORTH. THEN THE KING HIMSELF PLACED THE TURBAN ON LACHIT’S HEAD- THE NEXT DAY, THE KING INVESTED LACHIT WITH THE TITLE BARPHUKAN® TO LEAD OUR ARMY, WE NEED A WARRIOR WHO HOLDS HONOUR DEARER THAN HIS LIFE. WE THINK WE HAVE FOUND ONE LAM HONOURED, YOUR MAJESTY. T PROMISE, YOUR MAJESTY, PLL DRIVE OUT THE MUGHALS, FROM OUR LAND. + COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL ARMY THE TIME HAD COME.THE AHOM ARMY SAILED DOWN THE RIVER BRAHMAPUTRA ... Te = : — ENTERED SARAIGHAT. AT FORT ITAKHULI*A SPY STOOD BEFORE THE MUGHAL FAUZDAR , SYED FIROZ KHAN. THE MUGHALS GREETED LACHIT [OUR HIGHNESS, MANY OF \ WE Wil : AND HIS MEN WITH cai fy] CANNONADE. Z JOUR FORTS HAVE FALLEN. ] THEM A BIG Sri aac [THE ASSAMBSE: WILL BE { RECEPTION. AY WY eo ARE SILENCED, ITAKHULI WILL, } PO Never BE OURS- %® NEAR MODERN GAUHATI LACHIT HAD A PLAN. HE SENT TWO GROUPS OF SPIES TO ITAKHULI AT NIGHT. COME, LET'S 2 { FIND OUT WHAT ITIS. me ts: THE OTHER POURED WATER INTO THE MUZZLES OF THE CANNONS. ONWARD ! CHARGE | CLAMBER UP THE WALL WHEN THE NEWS REACHED THE [MEANWHILE ,AT ITAKHULI — ALITAL ny Mind 15 AT sik, AURANGZEB \/ Z PEACE NOW, HAS DESPATCHED RAM SINGH ® OF cols ‘ “= Se || a THIS 19 A VULNERABLE | POSITION « HAVE A R DELAY CAN BE FATAL. THE RAMPART MUST BE READY WITHIN TWO AND LACHIT RODE AWAY. * MANY RAJPUT NOBLES HAD THEN TAKEN SERVICE UNDER THE MUGHALS THE OFFICER,WHO HAPPENED TO BE AN UNCLE OF LACHIT,DID NOT TAKE THE MATTER SERIOUSLY. TWO DAYS LATER — REALLY—1 NEVER (SIR, BARPHUKAN IS THOUGHT HE WAS ee ser -<) GR 0 IT SH 5 RIGHT. AFTER ALL Ns READY YET 2 LAZY OFFICERS WILL RUIN ‘OUR COUNTRY. THEY ‘SHALL BE PUNISHED LIKE TRAITORS. OFFICER AWAY — Toe PUNISH ME— YOUR UNCLE { AS LACHIT’S GUARDS LED THE ERRING MY UNCLE 15 NOT GREATER THAN MY ‘COUNTRY. TAKE. HIM \ AWAY AND HAVE HIM EXECUTED! ALTHOUGH LACHIT STRENGTHENED FORTIFICATIONS THROUGHOUT ASSAM, RANGAMALI, A FRONTIER FORT, FELL TO THE MUGHALS. THE SURVIVORS you MAY LACHIT CALLED A MEETING OF HIS GENERALS ARE ON THEIR AND EXPLAINED HIS PLANS. WAY TO TAKHULi REST. Wit SHOULD LURE THE ENEMY INTO SARAIGHAT AND THEN DESTROY —/- THEM. - LATER, ONE OF RAI SINGH'S ENVOYS CALLED ON LACHIT. p \T HAZO *. { GOOD. LET'S. : S{ WATCH His NEXT MOVE. NEAR GAUHATI YES

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