History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v1.c12.29

v1.c12.29

This wretched state of things was the natural result of a succession of short changes of viceroyalties and incompetent viceroys.[*] Khan-i-Dauran who had succeeded Aurangzib, was murdered a year afterwards. The veteran of a hundred battles, he also worked hard at the administration, transacting public business for twelve hours a day and inspecting everything himself. But he was so pitiless in exacting money from the village headmen, so harsh in squeezing the ryots, and so rough and strict to all the people under him, that the news of his death threw them into a transport of joy and was celebrated at Burhanpur as a divine deliverance.