Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c6.s6.24

v1.c6.s6.24

But in this very year 1745 died one of the main pillars of the Persian party at Court, Asad Yār Khan. His project of raising a new army, the *Shamshir dāgh*, 10,000 strong, had been wrecked on the rock of finance. This force cost 30 lakhs of Rupees a year. But after Nādir Shah’s retirement, many of the dispersed soldiers of the old imperial army gradually returned to their master’s standards, and the State income soon proved insufficient to meet the army bill. So, the Emperor at first decided to discharge half the new *Shamshir dāgh* corps.