Akhbar-i Mahabbat 3: The Sixth Year of the Reign of Ahmad Shah.

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In this year, 'Imadu-l Mulk (Ghaziu-d din), having secured the concurrence of Malhar Mahratta, attacked Suraj Mal Jat, who was one of the dependents of Safdar Jang. Suraj Mal, having taken refuge in one of his forts, wrote to Ahmad Shah and Intizamu-d daula, representing that if 'Imadu-l Mulk, joined by the Mahrattas, should acquire power, he would assuredly ruin the Empire as well as the Wazarat. Intizamu-d daula saw the evil, and persuaded the Emperor to proceed, on pretence of hunting, towards Sikandra, where Holkar Mahratta suddenly made an attack upon the royal army. Ahmad Shah with his mother, Intizamu-d daula, and some other followers, fled. All the royal camp equipage and the insignia of royalty were plundered by the Rajputs. Malika Zamaniya, the daughter of Farrukh Siyar, with other ladies of the royal household, were captured by the Mahratta and received into his zenana, and the honour of the family of Timur received a deadly wound.
'Imadu-l Mulk, on receipt of this intelligence, abandoned the siege of the Jat's forts, and in company with Malhar Rao Holkar and Samsamu-d daula, the commandant of artillery, returned to Dehli. There, in concert with the chief officers of the throne, he first killed Intizamu-d daula, his maternal uncle, and then assumed the rank of wazir for himself, under the title of Ghaziu-d din Khan, He took Ahmad Shah and his mother prisoners, and treated them with every indignity. The pen now turns to other matters, and, if God please, the present subject shall be hereafter resumed.