Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c22.s2.1

v2.c22.s2.1

The earliest to rebel against her authority was Bihkāri Khan (Raushan-ud-daulah, Rustam Jang) who had been “the centre of all affairs of the province in Muin-ul-mulk’s time” and his dearest friend, and who had secured a rescript for the deputy governorship of the province from the imperial wazir, which the Begam refused to recognize. But she succeeded in seducing his followers and putting him in confinement in her palace in charge of Khwājah Mirzā Said Khan Qipchaq, about January 1754.*