Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 50.3.375

50.3.375

MIR SHEAB-eddin, son of Ghazi-eddin-qhan; receives the hereditary titles on his father's death, iii, 319. Joins in a conspiracy to ruin his benefactor, the Vezir, iii, 320. Instigates the Marhattas against the Djatts under Sooroodj-mull; requests the Emperor, Ahmed-shah, for some heavy artillery, iii, 335. His request not complied with; on ill terms with the Emperor, iii, 336. Confines the Emperor and the Empress-mother; orders them to be blinded; proclaims Aalemghir, the Second, as Emperor, and himself becomes Vezir, iii, 339. Styled Umad-el-mulk; instigates the Abdali-king to invade the dominion of Shudja-ed-dowla, iii, 340. Designs the recovery of the provinces of Pendjab and Mooltan from the Abdali-king; aims at the overthrow of the Brigade Sin, iii, 343. Roughly treated by the mutinous Brigade, iii, 344-345. Orders the annihilation of the Brigade Sin, iii, 346. Takes the Imperial Prince Aaly-goher with him and sets out towards Lahore; some account of his marriage, iii, 347. Strange predictions of his mother-in-law, iii, 348. His peace with his mother-in-law; his cowardly submission to the Abdali-monarch, iii, 349. Undertakes to bring an enormous sum of money to the Abdali treasury in exchange for an Abdali army; his expedition against Shudja-ed-dowla; his disappointment at the conclusion of an agreement with Shudja-ed-dowla, iii, 351. At variance with Maleca-zemani and Saheba-mahal, consorts of the late Emperor Mahmed-shah, iii, 352. Takes in hand the administration of the Empire, iii, 365. Seizes the Emperor's person; sends a General at the head of ten thousand horse to bring back Prince Aaly-goher, iii, 366. His vigorous measures in pursuit of the fugitive Prince, iii, 367-368. Attempts to embroil the Rohillas and Shudja ed-dowla, iii, 370. Puts to death his uncle, Intyzam-ed-dowla, iii, 374. Treacherously murders the Emperor Aalem-ghir the Second; his discomfiture on learning the settlement arrived at between Shudja-ed-dowla and the Marhattas; his flight to Sooroodj-mull's country on hearing of the Abdaly-king's forced marches, iii, 375.