Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c30.s3.4

v2.c30.s3.4

We have seen in Chapter 17 § 13-16 how Prince Shah Alam’s attempt to carve out a fief for himself in the Rohtak district even under the Emperor’s letter patent had failed, how he had defeated the jealous wazir’s plan for arresting him in his Delhi mansion (19 May 1758), and how after cutting his way through the ring of assailants he had made a fresh attempt to secure a foothold in the Rohtak-Hisar region, and then, on being abandoned by his Maratha ally Vital Shivdev and even his Delhi retainers, he had “turned his face to the path of the wilderness in sole reliance on God,”