Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c36.s8.22

v3.c36.s8.22

Abdul Ahad Khan, though holding the regency of the Empire, knew his own military weakness; he had been long planning how to secure an instrument for overthrowing Mirzā Najaf Khan. Zābita had shrunk from such an enterprise; the Jat Rajah and the Macheri Rao had been crushed by Najaf’s superior force and statesmanship; the Marathas were involved in a life and death struggle with the English and the domestic traitor Raghunath Dada. Only the Sikhs were left, and with them Abdul Ahad began to coquet.