Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s10.29

v2.c27.s10.29

Meantime, Shujā-ud-daulah from his camp on the eastern bank of the Jamunā had sent a letter and an agent, Rajah Devidat, proposing to bring about a peace between the Peshwā and Abdāli through the mediation of the Bhāu and Najib, on condition that the absent Shah Alam should be recognized as Emperor, his eldest son Jawān Bakht installed in the government of Delhi as his vicar (wali ahad or Heir), and Shujā appointed imperial wazir, and that the Shāh should return to his own country and the Marathas to the Deccan. The very entertainment of this proposal antagonized Imād and his patron Suraj Mal, and these two went away in anger from their camps at Tughlaqabad to Ballabhgarh, without taking leave of the Bhāu. Next morning (4th August) the Bhau's secretary Mahipat Rao, Malhar's diwān Gangādhar, and Sindhia's manager Rāmāji Anant went there to pacify and bring them back, but without success.*