Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c16.s8.26

v1.c16.s8.26

The second of June, Imād-ul-mulk came to the Court with Tātyā Gangādhar (Holkar's *diwān*) Aqibat Mahmud, and his brother Saif-ullah, three hours after dawn.* Ahmad Shah first placed the Holy Book in the hand of Imād and called upon him to swear that he would not practise treachery against him. Imād did so, with the strongest oaths, and was next invested with the robe of the wazir. Then he went to the Chancellor's office, where its clerks were in attendance, signed a few papers as required by the rules, and retired to an ante-room behind it, dismissing the Mir Atish and all other officers present. Immediately after this he sent Aqibat Mahmud with the harem superintendent's assistant and a guard of 50 Badakhshi soldiers to the gate of the princes' quarter in the palace where all the grandsons of the Emperors lived in confinement.