Later Mughals v2.c13.s12.12

v2.c13.s12.12

Muhammad Amin Khan made his way at once to the imperial quarters, and called on the Emperor to come out and take command of his troops. The head of the murdered Bakhshi was thrown at his feet in the space before his private tents. Muhammad Shah, whether he had been in the secret or not, now showed some inclination to draw back, and began to remonstrate. His mother, too, though she had no doubt intrigued to get her son freed from the galling tutelage of the Sayyids, was now afraid for his personal safety and drew him back within the women's apartments. Then Sayyid Ghulam Ali Khan, cousin of the Wazir and of the Bakhshi, and superintendent of the privy audience chamber, who had come inside the private enclosure with Islam Quli, a slave, and some gunners (*hazari*) in his pay, cut through the canvas walls and tried to obtain possession of the Emperor's person. Muhammad Amin Khan and some Mughals drove them back, and Saadat Khan then captured and confined them.