Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 22.23.4

22.23.4

After this he sent for his consort and family from Hafyz-rahmet's country ; and having given the fortress of Chennar in exchange for that of Ilah-abad, which had been assigned for the Emperor's residence, and placed with that Prince a person of consequence to execute in his absence the office of Vezir, and another to perform the duty of Mir-ateshy (which two offices were hereditary in his family), he departed, and took the shortest road to Faiz-abad, a city that had been finished by himself, but commenced by his maternal ancestor, Saadet-qhan. And although he travelled with expedition, nevertheless he availed himself of his journey throughout that whole tract to put the country under a proper management; and there we shall leave him, until we resume his history by bringing it as far down as the reign of our present Emperor, Shah-aalem; then with God's blessing, we shall close our narrative of Mir-cassem's adventures, in the cursory account which we are to give of the Emperors, Sovereigns, and eminent men who have appeared in Hindostan within that period. These matters we reserve for our subsequent volume; and this shall be over and above what we shall have to say of Bengal and Bahar, and of the boundaries which the new conquerors have given to those two provinces. At present our intention is to restrain ourselves to such events only as concern more particularly the English government in those parts;