Later Mughals v2.c15.s15.8

v2.c15.s15.8

Apart from difficulties about money and the general non-success of his arms, three causes appear to have led to Muhammad Khan's disgrace; first, the complaints of the jagir-holders in Malwa, persons who were influential in the palace; secondly, the attack on Chhattar Singh of Narwar, who was the protégé of the eunuch Hafiz Khidmatgar Khan and others; thirdly, the friendship which had sprung up between the governor and Nizam-ul-mulk. Perhaps the last of these was the greatest offence, for at that time Nizam-ul-mulk's acts were most jealously watched by the clique in power at Dihli. The subsequent rapid advance of the Mahrattas shows that they were already too strong for resistance by one provincial governor, and it is clear that with inferior means Muhammad Khan did as much if not more than all the forces of the Empire led by the Wazir and the Amir-ul-umara were able to accomplish. [Id. 324, Rustam Ali 261a].