Muntakhab al-tawarikh 1.5

1.5

The Nawab, very happy and cheerful, marched thence and came to Faizabad. He paid no attention to the old army and the Mughals, so that they dispersed in all directions. The truth is that within the last three hundred years, Humayun and Shuja'u-d daula are the only two potentates who have recovered their lost kingdoms after most marvellous vicissitudes. The latter even exceeded the former in this respect; for Humayun, after obtaining his kingdom, did not enjoy the pleasures of it, because he soon died. But Shuja'u-d daula, after emerging from a state of the utmost embarrassment, added, by the power of his arms, the districts of Etawa and Rohilkhand to his former dominions, and ruled in great prosperity and happiness for ten or twelve years after it. His descendants also enjoy their power to this day, * * and at present, among the Muhammadans, there are no princes so fortunate. The Nawab, after dismissing the old army, organized a new force in imitation of the English. He taught the soldiers the use of muskets or matchlocks. He made several divisions, each counting one thousand men, and gave them the appellation of Bark Battalion, Bakht Battalion, and Baisi. Instead of Kumaidans and Captains, he called the officers by the name of Salár. In short, he introduced everything into the army entirely contrary to, and at variance with what prevailed before.