Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c15.s8.6

v1.c15.s8.6

The Emperor keenly resented being reduced to the condition of a captive cut off from free intercourse with society by Safdar Jang’s partisans. Such high handedness on the part of the prime minister could have been borne if his administration had been a success, the revenue secured, and the enemy kept out. But a dictator under whom the capital was insulted by a permanent camp of Marathas at its gates, the provinces passed out of the Central Government’s control and the royal household officials and troops all starved, was sure to provoke a universal revolt against his unwholesome domination.