A History of the Mahrattas v1.c28.23

v1.c28.23

Whilst these events were passing between the Mahrattas on the one part, and the Rohillas and Nabob of Oude on the other, Meer Shahabodeen, in consequence, it is said, of discovering a correspondence with Ahmed Shah Abdallee, put the Emperor, Alumgeer II., to death, together with his own relation, Intizam-ud-dowlah. He then raised to the imperial dignity a son of Kaum Bukhsh, the youngest son of Aurungzebe, by the title of Shah Jehan; whilst Ali Gohur, or Shah Alum, the son of the late nominal Emperor, after having some time before ineffectually applied for aid to Wittul Sewdeo, one of the Peishwa’s officers, and to Nujeeb-ud-dowlah, was used as an instrument by the crafty Shujah-ud-dowlah, and became the nominal head of a confederacy against Meer Jaffeir and the English in the well-known warfare of Bengal. Meer Shahabodeen, after having perpetrated those execrable deeds, in order to await the issue of the approaching contest between the Mahrattas and the Abdallee, sought protection with Sooruj Mull, Raja of the Jaths, who with mistaken generosity afforded him an asylum in one of his forts.²