Later Mughals v1.c9.s33.4

v1.c9.s33.4

On the 29th (18th Feb. 1719) Muhammad Amin Khan and Nawab Ghazi-ud-din Khan Ghalib Jang came at different hours to visit Husain Ali Khan. It is said that Muhammad Amin Khan, being angry with Farrukh-siyar, urged Husain Ali Khan to depose him, and the danger from the Mughal party, which up to this time had threatened, was thus dissipated completely. On the 30th (19th Feb. 1719) Qutb-ul-mulk, Maharajah Ajit Singh and Maharao Bhim Singh came to see Husain Ali Khan. The three men held council together and their projects took shape and substance. It was decided that first of all, before Husain Ali Khan presented himself, the post of darogha of the privy audience and the command of the artillery should be confided to their nominees. Farrukh-siyar, owing to the presence of the rival Prince, was in such a state of trepidation that, as one writer says, "his liver melted through fear." He wished Amin-ud-din to find out what the Sayyids were plotting. Amin-ud-din refused and repeated his former advice. But from a friend, who had access to the Sayyids, he had just received a note, which he sent on in original. In this it was stated that Farrukh-siyar was to be deposed, and one of the captive Princes raised to the throne. "Now was the time, in God's name, to fight for life, to brace himself up to resolve! For, if he paid no heed, he might be sure that Fortune would say good-bye, and the lamp of success would be extinguished. What care or sorrow could the writer and his friends have, save for His Majesty's person; to them individually what did it matter? It is the ass that is changed, not the pack-saddle."†