Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.24.6

42.24.6

But such is the pitch to which the veneration of Indians for all kinds of foreigners, and for Arabian Seyds in particular, can rise at sometimes, that this transaction looks full as strange, as if a Dutch Minister, just landed from the Texel, should at once be admitted into the British King's Palace, and espouse one of his daughters, and then become the principal Peer of the kingdom. But such is India ; and a Persian or Tartar adventurer would have been as much welcomed in the Palace of Haider-abad. Nor are there in India any men artists of their own fortunes, but such foreigners. Nizam-el-mulk was son to a Tartar ; Saadet-qhan and Abool-mansoor-qhan were Persians ; but Haider-naic is an exception to the general rule. Although an adventurer, he was Indian born. for that honour. Once it happened that the King asked the latter whether he had any knowledge of the ancestors of Seyd Ahmed? The other answered that he had, and that he was a learned man, son to a learned man, and grandson to a learned man; which last had been his own master and teacher (to Seyd Soltan). As this answer, which after all was nothing but truth, was pronounced with a certain air, it made an impression on Seyd Ahmed, who from that moment became averse to him; and this aversion was kept up by a number of tale-tellers, who took care to furnish fresh fuel to it every day. Insomuch that they became enemies to each other;