Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c15.s3.9

v1.c15.s3.9

On 2nd November 1753, after hunting in the forenoon, he took a heavy meal at midday, followed it by a *siesta*, and then in the afternoon while out galloping his horse over a field to join his troops, he was suddenly taken ill. The doctors could do nothing with all their devices, and he died in the night of the 3rd under symptoms which created the belief that he had been poisoned. His masterful widow, Mughlani Begam, "won over the soldiery by opening the doors of the treasury and paying the due salaries of the soldiers and officials for three days and nights." Then she brought his corpse to Lahor where it was buried in the tomb-enclosure of Miān Mir (Hazrat Ishān), close to the tomb of the late Nawāb Khan Bahādur.*