Storia do Mogor 65.36.8

65.36.8

Sultan Muhammad, his nephew, was angry at his father (Aurangzeb) having placed supreme command in the hands of Mir Jumlah, leaving him to work under his orders without any command. He wanted to have uncontrolled direction of the army, while Mir Jumlah should act under him. To this effect he wrote several times to his father that it did not befit the dignity of a prince, His Majesty's firstborn son, for a subject to command an army while he, though not deficient in military training or power of leading, remained without a command. There were no grounds for His Majesty believing more in Mir Jumlah than in his son. In nothing was he undeserving the post of generalissimo, either by his blood or his known valour. But Aurangzeb paid not the least attention to the request of his son. He was afraid that, should he get hold of an army, [236] he might rebel against him, as is usually the case in this empire of the Moguls, and an ancient habit of theirs.