Later Mughals v1.c8.s10.11

v1.c8.s10.11

When it was too late, Jahandar Shah saw his error and endeavoured to propitiate Abdullah Khan. Promotion from 4,000 zat to 6,000 zat was offered, with confirmation in the Government of Allahabad in his own name. The fulsome heaping-up of titles in the letter addressed to Abdullah Khan is some indication of Jahandar Shah's consternation at the turn affairs had taken. Abdul-ghaffar was thrown overboard, and the letter to him is couched in terms which might have been addressed to a rebel, instead of to a man who had been trying to carry out faithfully the orders that he had received. It was too late, however, and in vain was this humiliating attitude assumed. Abdullah Khan, disgusted at the treatment he had received, had already thrown in his lot with Farrukh-siyar.‡