Later Mughals v1.c6.s26.7

v1.c6.s26.7

known, and titles were conferred regardless of the fact that another man already bore the same title. [K. K. 627-628.] Up to this time some slight difference, even of a single word, distinguished one title from another. In Bahadur Shah's reign an already perplexing system was made more perplexing still by this carelessness. As Khafi Khan relates, one *mansabdar* petitioned the Emperor that he had lost his family title by its grant to another person. On his petition Bahadur Shah wrote "Granted, granted, granted, even if another has it." From that time all system was abandoned and, as Danishmand Khan tells us, there were three men who at one time bore the title of Fazil Khan.