History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c84.s2.t3.5

v5.c84.s2.t3.5

A large number of letters written by Aurangzib to Bidar Bakht during his nineteen months' government of Malwa have been preserved. They cover folios 27 to 116 in Inayetullah's *Ahkam* (Rampur MS.) The prince's favourite lieutenant was the young gallant Jai Singh,* the new Rajah of Jaipur, who had gained his good opinion by his conspicuous services when both of them were posted together outside the Konkani gate of Khelna in April 1702, and also later as his subordinate in Khandesh (1703-4.) When the prince was about to march from Malwa to Khandesh he proposed to leave Jai Singh there as his deputy governor; but Aurangzib vetoed the proposal, as he had made a rule that no Rajput should be appointed subahdar or even faujdar. [Inayet, 68a, 72b.]* Khan-i-Alam was appointed deputy governor and became full subahdar in 1706, when the prince was transferred to Gujrat. [M.A. 512.]