Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c30.s3.37

v2.c30.s3.37

The result of it all was that the Emperor became an English pensioner, and Shujā a protected British vassal in effect, though disguised under the title of an equal and independent ally, who had afterwards to reduce his army and secure English approval in appointing his ministers, but merely as instances of the purity of his friendship with the English. In July 1766, Lord Clive held a "Congress" at Chāprā (in north Bihar), which was attended by Shujā-ud-daulah in person and the envoys of the Emperor, the Jāt Rajah and the Ruhela chiefs. Here a treaty was entered into by them for mutual defence against any Maratha aggression. The Emperor, who had conferred the wazirship of the empire (as distinct from the subahdāri of Oudh) upon his son on being abandoned by Shujā at the end of 1764, now under pressure from Clive restored the Chancellorship to Shujā. [CPC. ii. 1044.]