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istrict of the PI. xix. The purport of the Central Provinces, a modern inscription is given by Cunning- |,dministrative aggregation of ham, and also by Bloch in Annual egions with little natural con- Hep. of A.S., Eastern Circle, ;.exion. The present capital of 1907-8, pp. 26, 27. The text does hat district is the ancient town not seem to have been published. )f Khandwa. In Akbars time The most detailed contemjiorary Vsirgarh was the stronghold of the description of the place as it was mall kingdom of Khandesh situ- in Akbars days is that in the .ted on the lower course of the Akharndma of Shaikh Illahdad Papti, of which Burhanpur was Faizi of Sirhind (E. & 1)., vi, 188- jhe ca|)ital. The greater part of 41). The author was in the hat kingdom now forms the service of Shaikh Farld of Bo- <:handesh District under the khara(Murtaza Khan), who formed ;overnment of Bombay. After the plan for the siege, and super- jhe surrender Asirgarh l)ecame intended the operations, \ 1845 T .0^-.
Text Appearing After Image: JESUITS; DECCAN AFFAIRS 275 heavy breaching artillery, soon found that the task oftaking the fort by storm was beyond his powers. Thenature of the ground prevented the besiegers from usingmines or constructing covered ways {sdbdts). The siege,therefore, became little more than a blockade, and mereblockading operations directed against a fortress so amplysupplied with food, water, and munitions offered littleprospect of success within a reasonable time. Two divergentand irreconcilable accounts of the manner in which Akbarultimately attained his purpose are on record. The officialhistorians aver that the surrender of Asirgarh was due toan outbreak of deadly pestilence. The Jesuit version, basedon unpublished letters from Jerome Xavier, who was in attendance on Akbar, state that possession of the fortresswas gained by wholesale bribery of the officers of the garrison,and that earlier in the proceedings Miran Bahadur, the[king, was lured into Akbars camp and made prisoner byan act of sham
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