Tarikh-i Muzaffari 2: Murder of Nawab Bahadur the Eunuch Jawed.

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The great advancement of the eunuch Jawed, and the power he had acquired in the government of the State, gave great offence to Waziru-l Mamalik Abu-l Mansur Khan Safdar Jang, and led him to form a plot against the Nawab. He first called to his side Suraj Mal Jat with his army, and then sent re-assuring and soothing messages to the Nawab Bahadur. Having thus thrown him off his guard, Safdar Jang invited him to a banquet. Safdar Jang placed a number of his trusty men on the watch in the palace of Dara Shukoh, and having posted two hundred men inside and outside the palace, he sat down in great state to await the arrival of his guest. * * When the Nawab arrived, Safdar Jang advanced to receive him with ceremony and (apparent) cordiality. After the meal was over, he gave his hand to his guest, and conducted him into a private room to talk over State affairs. They had not said much before Safdar Jang assumed a tone of asperity; but before he became heated, he moved to go into his private apartments. Thereupon, 'Ali Beg Khan and some other Mughal officers came out, despatched the Nawab with their daggers and swords, and having cut off his head, threw it outside. The Nawab's attendants, on beholding this, took the alarm and fled, and the idlers and vagabonds of the city fell upon his equipage and plundered it.