Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c14.s1.2

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Hāfiz Rahmat Khan (born about 1709) was the grandson of an Afghan priest and saint, settled at Turu Shahāmatpur. His father had once been the master of Dāud, the adoptive father of Ali Muhammad Khan, and Rahmat on migrating to India had become Ali Muhammad’s right hand man by reason of his extraordinary intelligence, administrative capacity, inborn military genius and honesty of character. He had promoted his patron’s conquests, in the years following Nādir’s invasion, at the expense of the Hindu Rajahs and Mughal jāgirdārs. [G-i-R. 13-20.]