Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s17.33

v2.c27.s17.33

There was no love lost between Najib (with his friend Shujā) and the trans-Ganges Afghans under Hāfiz Rahmat, Dundi Khan and other generals of Ali Muhammad Ruhela's colony. Hāfiz despised Najib as a vulgar upstart, who had first entered his master's service as a poor infantryman but now risen to be the dictator of Delhi and the prime minister of Abdali for Indian affairs,—while Hāfiz claimed the blood of the honoured spiritual head of the Ruhelas long settled in India. Abdali, therefore, placed Najib (with Shujā) on the left and the Pār Ruhelas on the right of his centre. Ahmad Khan Bangash with his paltry contingent of about 1,000 men stood in the right wing, but at some interval to the left of the Pār Ruhelas and next to the centre.