Tarikh-i Iradat Khan 11.3

11.3

Kokaltash Khan, foster-brother of Jahandar Shah, and brought up with him from his childhood, was honoured with the title of Khan-Jahan. His wife, daughter, and whole family also possessed great influence with Jahandar, and claimed from him the performance of a promise he had made of the office of wazir. At the same time they and their adherents combined to work the overthrow of Zu-l fikar Khan Amiru-l umara. With this view all their relations and dependents were raised to a high rank, and a great number of the nobility, distressed by the pride and rapacity of Zii-l fikár Khán, joined their party. They insinuated to the Emperor that the Amíru-l umará entertained designs too ambitious for a subject, to attain which he would dare to shed the blood of princes; that he had already determined on a revolution, and either to seize the throne for himself, or if he found that too dangerous, to bestow it on one of the confined princes more favourable to his will than His Majesty.