Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c22.s6.3
Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c22.s6.3
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v2.c22.s6.3
Feeble minds find their easiest refuge in consultation. The wazir held a council of the chief men in Delhi on 25 December. They all advised him to march against the invaders taking the Emperor at their head. But the only effective force in Delhi was that of Najib, who was known to be an enemy partisan. On the 29th, the wazir brought to the Emperor's audience Yaqub Ali Khan (a cousin of Abdali's wazir Shah Wali Khan, but long resident in India.) This man was created a 6-hazari mansabdar and sent in company with Shāh Fanā, a faqir greatly honoured by Abdali, to go to the Afghan king and induce him not to invade the Delhi region. [TALS. 86b ; Raj. i. p. 437.]