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T.S. whose jealousy and hatred of Musalman Cull were well known to him. A party of twenty of them leagued together to carry out the Khan's and their own wishes. They seized the wazir one morning as he came to the court for the usual salutation, and hurrying him off to the execution square there " spread-eagled " him on a board, and so left him for three days to the insults and jeers of a rabble of hired ruffians, and then gibbeted him on the gallows hard by. And such was the recompense the " king-maker" Kapchak received for setting Khudayar Khan on the throne, and for having ruled the country for thirteen years with more moderation and justice than any of the legitimate Khans had shown themselves capable of.
Khudayar now took the reins of government into his own hands, and, amongst
other changes, appointed Koshbegi Yak ib Beg to the charge of the Kilaochi Fort and made some ineffectual attempts to recover the Akmasjid Fort from the Russian grasp. Whilst absent on one of these expeditions his elder brother, Mallah Khan, with the aid of the Kapchak and Kirghiz, captured Khokand after a siege of seventeen days, and was immediately joined by most of the nobles.
Khudayar and a younger brother, Sultan Murad, on this retired to Bukhara
for asylum and aid; whilst Mallah Khan, establishing himself at the capital, posted his own governors over the country. 'Thus he sent Stiff Beg to Namangan, Hasan Beg to Marghinan, Alim Beg to Andijan, Israr Cull to Chamyan, Muhammad M ûsa to Tashkand, Syad Beg to Khujand, and Yakûb Beg, Koshbegi, he raised to the rank of Shap/tawul, or " Foreign Minister," and appointed to the charge of the fort of Kuramma. Alim Cull he appointed as his own Zinbardcir, or " Equerry," and Khadir and Beg Muhammad each as Huddychi, or " Court Chamberlain," and Cana'at Shah he kept at Khokand as his Ncztb, or " Deputy Governor," and subsequently sent him to Tashkand to watch the Russian movements in the direction of Hazrat Sultan Turkistan.
In the commotion and excitement following the murder of Musalman Cull the
Khoja Wall Khan, !'ora, set out from Khokand on his expedition against Kashghar. Whilst he was perpetrating his barbarities there the Kirghiz and Kapchak in Khokand rose in revolt under the lead of Alim Cull, and killing Mallah Khan set Shah Murad, a grandson of Sher Ali, on the throne. Khudayar on this advanced from Jizzak with a Bukhara force and seized Tashkand, where Cana'at Shah and Yaknb Beg, Shaghciwul of Kuramma (he had been associated with the other to watch the Russians) surrendered the city, and, joining him, set him on the throne there as Khan. For this service Yak lb Beg was again taken into favour by Khudayar Khan and re-appointed to his former office of Koshbegi.
Meanwhile Shah ïVlurad, who had been put on the throne by Mini Cull, Kapchak,
set out with him as Amirilashlcar against '1âshkand. On their arrival Yaknh Beg, Koshbegi, joined the Kapchak leader, and they both retired to Kuramma, the fort of the former. Here they increased and fully equipped their army, and then returned and besieged Tashkand. After a month of close investment and desultory skirmishing, finding their troops disheartened and beginning to desert, they raised the siege and withdrew to Khokand, whence Alim Cull sent Yaklb Beg as Governor to Khujand.
Khudayar, having in the meantime summoned the aid of the Bukhara Amir,
now marched against Khujand with the Bukhara army under Muzaffar-ud-din himself who in the previous year, 1860, had succeeded to the throne on the death of his father, Nasrulla, and now joined him on the banks of the river. Yakfib Beg surrendered the fort, and Khudayar sent him away under surveillance with the army returning to Bukhara with the Amir, and then went on with a detachment of it to be set on the throne for the second time at Khokand.
The Bukhara army took the city after a siege of ten days, when Alim Cull escaped to Karastl, and Shah Murad Khan to his uncle amongst the Kirghiz in the hills. Khudayar now took possession of his old quarters in the citadel, and sent
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