Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c13.s5.25

v1.c13.s5.25

Safdar Jang arrived with a Maratha army of 50,000 men, on the bank of the Jamunā opposite Delhi on 25th April. Next day Jāvid Khan paid him a visit there. The wazir wanted to push on to the Panjāb with his allies and expel the Afghans; but Jāvid told him that peace had been made already by the cession of that province to Abdāli. Safdar was surprised and angered. He had bound himself, by order of the Emperor, to pay the Marathas 50 lakhs of Rupees for the defence of the realm, and he naturally asked how he was to keep this promise. This controversy embittered their feelings, and the wazir indignantly refused to enter the city but kept to his tents on the other side of the river.