Later Mughals v2.c13.s6.9

v2.c13.s6.9

Further details of Nizam-ul-mulk’s stay in Malwa are obtained from another source. The night following his arrival at Ujjain there was heavy rain; “this was, indeed, to him God’s gracious rain, for from that day he never ceased to prosper.” Ujjain became to him in fact as well as name the Dar-ul-fath, the Abode of Victory. After the rains (of 1719) had ended, he set out to reduce his province to order. It was then that the friends of Husain Ali Khan wrote alarming letters about the strength of his army and complained that mischief was brewing, as he was tampering with the Court intelligencer's reports. Upon hearing this Husain Ali Khan broke out into strong language. He asserted that Nizam-ul-mulk should never have been allowed to leave the Court, and now one "Nizam-ul-mulk" had multiplied into a thousand; it would be found as difficult to deal with him as to tackle a young tiger in an open plain.