Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s27.20

v2.c27.s27.20

In such circumstances, a born master of affairs would have asserted his will, cut his losses by abandoning all his northern ambitions (or severely curtailing them within the limits of possibility), and commanded the Bhāu at once to fall back on Agra, or even Gwālior, and thus saved his son and army, at the expense of the coveted but unattainable lordship of Delhi and the Panjāb and the unhampered possession of the Doāb. We can blame Bālāji for this failure of a supreme master’s duty ; his marriage at Paithān had nothing to do with the issue in the North.