Later Mughals v2.c13.s6.1

v2.c13.s6.1

Between Nizam-ul-mulk and the Sayyids there were many reasons for mutual distrust. Spoiled in earlier years by the exceptional favour with which he and his father were honoured during the last part of Alamgir’s reign, Nizam-ul-mulk was ever afterwards discontented with the treatment he received from that monarch’s successors. In Bahadur Shah’s reign he served grudgingly, more than once sending in his resignation. It was the same in Jahandar Shah’s reign. His services to Farrukh-siyar at the time of Jahandar Shah’s overthrow secured him the Government of the Dakhin, a region in regard to which, as there can be no doubt, he had cherished secret projects ever since the death of Alamgir. Nizam-ul-mulk, like his father, had won his spurs in the Dakhin campaigns, and, as Zulfiqar Khan unquestionably did, he must have seen that it offered a splendid opening for acquiring partial, perhaps even complete, independence of Dihli and its sovereign. He had held the six subahs for hardly more than two years, when he was superseded by Husain Ali Khan.