Riyaz al-salatin 113.2

113.2

In the pursuit of the phantoms of individual self-aggrandisement and of personal ambitions, they had taken advantage of the youthful failings of their sovereign and of the internecine jealousies that distracted his family, forgotten and forsaken all sentiments of gratitude and honour, and yielded to their instinct of intrigue by fraternising with the Nawab's disloyal relation, Mir Jafar. These, therefore, verily needed a Chastener — a Moses — to save them from further moral dissolution ; and so Providence in His inscrutable wisdom sent to them One from across the seas in the person of the English, to scourge the vices of the land, to chasten the people, to purify and re-form them, and to once more, if possible, to rescue them from the sea of moral annihilation. army and the nobility, who had joined him in his conspiracy to destroy Siraju-d-daulah. He appointed his nephew, Khadim Husain Khan, to the office of Faujdar of Purniah, and conferred on Ramnarain a robe of honour, confirming him in the Deputy-Governorship of the Subah of Azimabad (Patna). At this time Shah Alam invaded the Subah of Azimabad. Rahim Khan and Qadirdad Khan, &c., sons of Umar Khan, and Ghulam Shah and other commanders and generals in the service Khan being thus re-assured, let Ramnarain return to the fort of Azimabad. Shortly after, on getting news of the approach of Miran and the English, Ramnarain threw off his mask of loyalty to the Prince and Muhammad Quli Khan.