Later Mughals v1.c6.s7.9

v1.c6.s7.9

On the 10 Shaban 1119 (5th Nov.), the Mughal leaders Chin Qilich Khan Bahadur, Muhammad Amin Khan Chin Bahadur and the latter's son, Qamr-ud-din Khan, with many others arrived at the Court in Agra from Aurangabad, in response to the letters sent to them after the victory over Azam Shah. They were presented through Munim Khan. This minister had no reason to love Muhammad Amin Khan Chin, for it was on that chief's report complaining of neglect to reinforce him at the siege of Khelna (1702) in the Dakhin, that five years before this time Munim Khan had fallen into disgrace and received the great affront of a reduction in his rank. This reason accounts in part, no doubt, for the fact that in Bahadur Shah's reign Muhammad Amin Khan and the other Turani soldiers of fortune were kept comparatively in the background. Their presence, too, in the Dakhin, where they had so long served and had so many friends, would have been in itself dangerous, while Zulfiqar Khan's own projects in that direction required that the field should be cleared of any powerful rivals.* For one or other of these reasons, Ghazi-ud-din Khan Firuz Jang, the blind subahdar, was transferred from the Dakhin to Ahmadabad; his son, Chin Qilich Khan, (newly created Khan Dauran Bahadur, 7,000 *zat*, 7,000 horse) was posted as *subahdar* of Oudh and *faujdar* of Gorakhpur; and his nephew, Muhammad Amin Khan Chin Bahadur, was made *faujdar* of Muradabad in the subah of Dihli. [Kamwar 21, *M.A.* 464.]