Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c13.s5.23

v1.c13.s5.23

Safdar Jang had started from Oudh on 24th March, but he took 33 days to reach Delhi. In view of the imminence of the crisis at the capital this snail-slow movement over a road which fast couriers covered in four days only, had but one explanation. He rejoiced to see the late wazir’s viceroy son entirely crushed in the Panjab and thus to have one less head of the Turāni party to dread [*TAh.* 18*b*, 30*b*], and he deliberately prolonged the imperial Court’s agony of terror and suspense in order to enhance his own importance and power there on his return as its sole deliverer.