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Sirhind. Ahmad Shah, content with the keeping of the Punjab as far as Satluj, nominated Ali Gauhar, who afterwards assumed the title of Shah Alam II, to the throne of Delhi, and he himself returned to Afghanistan in the spring of 1761. Immediately on the return, a fresh enemy appeared on the scene. The Sikhs, taking advantage of the confused condition of northern India, began to show more activity in the Panjab. The inroads of these people compelled Ahmad Shah to return to India once more (1762). It is related that he rose one night suddenly from his sleep, picking a body of horsemen, rode off to India. On reaching Jandiala, where a large number of Sikhs had assembled, he led a surprise attack. Ahmad Shah had hardly ten to twelve followers with him at this time, yet such was the terror inspired by his name that the entire Sikh army fled on his approach. Collecting his troops, he pursued and defeated them near Gujarwal, south of Ludhiana with enormous slaughter. The fight has come to be known in Indian history as the Gullughara, which means the Great Overthrow.
Ahmad Shah, leaving a governor at Sirhind, returned to his homeland. Upon his departure
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