The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.69

v4.c21.s1.69

The unfortunate emperor had incurred the resentment of his minister by lending what little support he could to Najīb-ud-Daula, whom, since the departure of Ahmad Shāh Abdālī, he regarded as his potential protector, and had further offended by maintaining a correspondence, which he believed to be secret, with the Afghān king. On 29 November, 1759, he was inveigled to Fīrūz Shāh’s Kotla beyond the city walls, on the pretext that a *darvīsh* who was worth visiting lodged there, and was assassinated. The corpse of the murdered emperor was thrown out on the sands of the Jumna where it lay naked for several hours, having been stripped of its clothes, before it was buried in Humāyūn’s tomb. Intizām-ud-Daula was strangled next day.