The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c20.175

v4.c20.175

Meanwhile the Sayyid brothers had quarrelled over the spoils of Āgra. The younger claimed the spoils as he had taken them, while the elder maintained that they should be divided. After an acrimonious dispute Sayyid Husain ‘Alī Khān was obliged to surrender over two million rupees to his brother and the two were never again on their former terms of amity. At the same time Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khān incurred much odium by leaving the management of all public affairs in the hands of Ratan Chand, whose interference with ecclesiastical appointments caused such scandal that even his master was provoked to utter a mild rebuke.