Later Mughals v1.c9.s13.8

v1.c9.s13.8

Owing to the violent change of Government, there were naturally many confiscated mansions at the disposal of the crown. Two of these with their contents were conferred on Qutb-ul-mulk and his brother. One known as Jafar Khan's, which Kokaltash Khan, Khan Jahan, had held, was given to Qutb-ul-mulk; and another called Shaista Khan's, recently in the possession of Zulfiqar Khan, was made over to Husain Ali Khan. As soon as the distribution had been made, Farrukh-siyar's private circle of friends poured into his ear suggestions that these two mansions contained untold treasures, the accumulated wealth of many generations. In them was stored, they said, the property which had belonged to the four sons of Bahadur Shah, and the whole revenues of Hindustan for a year past. All this had now fallen into the possession of the two Sayyids. On the other hand, the imperial treasury had been emptied and the palace denuded of everything to pay Jahandar Shah's soldiers. [Kamwar 132, Warid 149a.]