Bayan-i waqiʿ 4.1

4.1

Jawed Khan Nawab Bahadur, the eunuch, was desirous of getting into his own hands, and without a partner, the whole direction of the Government of the country, with the assistance of Nawab Kudsiya, mother of the Emperor. The Nawab Safdar Jang Wazir-i 'azam also was desirous of doing the same thing for himself. So both these men became enemies to one another, and each waited for an opportunity of preventing the other from being a sharer in the Government. Nawab Safdar Jang was the first to begin, and called into the city Suraj Mal Jat, openly on the pretence of consulting him about taking and setting in order the capital of the Empire, but secretly and really with the object, that if the Emperor's men and followers should begin to raise a disturbance, they both together might be able to extinguish the flame of opposition.