Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c6.s6.13

v1.c6.s6.13

The wazir-to-be discovered that he was not to be. Amir Khān's game was lost; he found that in hoping to oust Qamruddin with the Emperor's support he had been leaning on a broken reed. Only one way was left for saving his master and himself; it was an abject surrender. He was sent to the two nobles, as from the Emperor, with his wrists tied together with a handkerchief like a culprit's, and delivered this message from his master, "This man has offended against you. Do what you like with him.'' The defeated plotter excused himself by laying all the blame on the wicked advice of Ishaq Khan and other courtiers! The two nobles considered such a man as beneath their contempt, but the Nizām commanded him, under the guise of advice, to leave the Court: "Now that differences have arisen between you and the wazir, it is best that you should go away from the Court to your province of Allahabad for some time.'' (Ashub, ii. 418, Siyar, ii. 100.)