Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c16.s7.10

v1.c16.s7.10

Even after his expulsion from Delhi, Aqibat did not cease to give trouble. In the environs of the capital he continued to plunder traders and extort money from well-to-do men wherever heard of,—at Ghāziud-din-nagar on 16th April, Sikandrabad on 27th and 28th April, and so on,—pretending all the time that he was helpless as his unpaid Turkish troops (Badakhshis) had taken the reins out of his hands. [*TAh. 125a, 127a.*] Thus, all things were steadily working up to an open clash between the Emperor and Imād, or the total dissolution of government; but it was a polar difference of State policy between them that actually precipitated the catastrophe.