Fall of the Mughal Empire v1.c7.s4.3

v1.c7.s4.3

The dawn of his fortune was the defeat (at Manauna, one mile west of Aonla) and plunder of Muhammad Sālih, a eunuch of the imperial Court, who had been granted a lease of the villages usurped by Ali Muhammad (1727).* The wealth thus secured enabled him to enlist more Afghān soldiers, and his name became an attraction to those who sought a captain whose service promised them victory and plunder. After this success, he ordered high and low to call him Nawāb, appointed the officials usual to a royal Court, and set up a crimson tent for himself, which was an exclusive privilege of the Emperors of Delhi.