Riyaz al-salatin 114.1.3

114.1.3

Nawab Qasim Ali Khan followed to Monghyr and resided there in 1175 A.H., after having finished his expeditions to Tirhut, Shahabad, and Azimabad, and after having left Rajah Naubat Rai as Deputy Subadar of Patna, in place of Ramnarain and Rajballab who were imprisoned. (See Seir, Vol. II, p. 711). Two days every week, the Nawab dispensed justice, attended personally to every State affair, and listened patiently to the complaints and grievances of everyone, however humble his position, and did not permit corruption or bribery to thwart the course of justice. He paid assiduous attention to the happiness of his people and to the comfort of his army, which he placed in a highly efficient state. He was, however, a terror to enemies and wrong-doers, and his vigorous personality pervaded all affairs of the State. Friends and foes alike respected him, and even the English regarded him as a real power in the land, and not as a shadow like Mir Jafar. He respected learning and the learned, and appreciated the company of scholars, savants, and saints. The one fatal mistake that he made was that he trusted implicitly the Armenian cut-throat, Gurgan Khan, who was the generalissimo of his Army and who was secretly bent on ruining him, and this one fatal mistake which embroiled him in a quarrel with the English subsequently proved disastrous to his power. See Seiru-l-Mutakherin, Vol. II, p. 712.