Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 17.9.1

17.9.1

To return to myself, I quitted Pooraniah, and went to Caran-golah, with intention to proceed to Azim-abad; when I learned that Aaly-verdy-qhan was dead, and that Seradj-ed-doulah, his grandson, had quietly been acknowledged in the three provinces of Bengal, Bahar, and Oressa. On this intelligence I thought it best to tarry at Caran-golah, in order to hear how the new Prince managed with the people of God; as such a knowledge might enable me to take my resolution accordingly, or as time and opportunity should point out. Meanwhile I heard that my two younger brothers, Seyd-aaly-qhan and Ghalib-aaly-qhan, and also my kind maternal uncle, Vehab-aaly-qhan, (which latter was of my age) had been banished out of the province of Azim-abad, where they all lived. This intelligence prevented my going to that city myself; and as the village of Caran-golah was not a place where one might pass the rainy season, fain I was to return to Pooraniah, and to take my quarters again in the house I had quitted. And now to follow the order of events, the historian's faithful pen must revert to Aaly-verdy-qhan's demise, and give an account of Seradj-ed-doulah's taking possession of the sovereignty of these rich provinces, and how this event has ushered the ruin of all Hindostan, by putting it in the power of strangers to possess themselves of the most extensive and populous provinces of that region.