The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c21.s1.87

v4.c21.s1.87

Sadāshiv Bhāo made strenuous but fruitless efforts to detach Shujā‘-ud-Daula from Ahmad Abdālī, and when these failed tried to arouse Ahmad's suspicion and to create discord. On 10 October he deposed and imprisoned the puppet Shāh Jahān III and enthroned Mirzā Javān Bakht,² son of ‘Ālī Gauhar, appointing Shujā‘-ud-Daula as his minister. Ahmad Shāh refused to be hoodwinked and Shujā‘-ud-Daula to be ensnared, but correspondence still continued, after the oriental fashion, between him and the Bhāo, and he was, throughout the campaign, the Bhāo's channel of communication with Ahmad Shāh.