The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.45
The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.45
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His motive was partly to ingratiate himself with the invader and to get rid of him, but chiefly to secure revenge on the son of his old enemy. Safdar Jang had died on 5 October, 1754, and had been succeeded in Oudh by his son Shujā‘-ud-Daula. The expedition was not a conspicuous success. The army reached Farrukhābād, where Ahmad Khān Bangash presented gifts to the princes and to Ghāzī-ud-dīn and sent a contingent with it into Oudh.