Bayan-i waqiʿ 4.3

4.3

The Emperor accordingly commanded that the wazir should be deposed from his office of commandant of artillery. This measure he did not approve of, and asked for leave to go towards Oudh, to put the country in order. The Emperor and the enemies of the wazir looked upon this as an unexpected piece of good fortune and a secret victory, so they forthwith sent him a khil'at and leave to depart. After delaying and lingering, he determined that it was not advisable to go to the province, and halted in the city, but the Emperor had laid this injunction on him, that he should go to his own province, viz. Oudh. When the quarrel between the parties became known, the Nawab Wazir, from fear lest the Turani chiefs, along with the Emperor and common people, should attack him, left the city with all his property and baggage, and halted for some days in or near the garden of Isma'il Khan and the Tal-katora and Khizrabad. This delay and waiting was planned in order that Suraj Mal Jat might arrive. When he came, he urged the Emperor to send 'Imadu-l Mulk (Ghaziu-d din) and Intizamu-d daula to him, and to tell Nawab Kudsiya to come out of the fort and take up her abode in the house of Ja'far Khan; because it was well known to Nawab Safdar Jang that Intizamu-d daula had been the cause of the firing of muskets on the day of the 'I'd, and Nawab Kudsiya, in consequence of the murder of Nawab Bahadur, had become the enemy of his family.