Muntakhab al-lubab 194: Haidar Kuli Khan.

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When Haidar Kuli Khan heard of the confiscation of his jagirs around Dehli, he represented to His Majesty, through some of the amirs at Court, that although his jagirs had been seized, he would not fail in his duty and fidelity. As stated above, censures of these proceedings were repeatedly sent to Haidar Kuli Khan without any effect. At last the complaints of the jagirdars and the insubordination of Haidar Kuli passed all bounds, so the subadari of Ahmadabad was taken away from him and given to Ghaziu-d din Khan Bahadur, eldest son of Nizamu-l Mulk.
After the Jat affair was settled, Nizamu-l Mulk left Court on the 2nd Safar, in the fifth year of the reign, to provide for the government of Ahmadabad, and to coerce Haidar Kuli Khan, if he made any resistance. When he reached Agra, some deceitful plausible letters arrived from Haidar Kuli, making all sorts of excuses. Nizamu-l Mulk continued his march till he reached the confines of Malwa. From letters which he then received from Ahmadabad, it appeared that Haidar Kuli Khan was very ill, and that he had shown some signs of insanity. According to other accounts, it appears that when Haidar Kuli Khan heard of the approach of Nizamu-l Mulk, of his being joined by 'Iwaz Khan and the armies of the Dakhin, and by Baji Rao, and other Mahrattas of Raja Sahu, and of the readiness of his associates in Ahmadabad to recognize Nizamu-l Mulk, he, for the purpose of defeating that general, feigned to be sick, and gave out that symptoms of madness had appeared. Haidar Kuli sent his son to the Emperor with a letter, in which he offered his excuses, and announced his intention of waiting upon His Majesty. Accordingly he set off for Dehli by way of Ajmir. Nizamu-l Mulk ascertained this fact when he was near the Nerbadda, seven or eight kos from Ahmadabad. He appointed Hamid Khan to act as deputy subadar of Ahmadabad, and at the beginning of Jumada-l akhir turned back towards the capital.