[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Fall of the Mughal Empire](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932) › v3.c36.s8.22 # Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c36.s8.22 Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c36.s8.22 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c36.s8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.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. - [Previous: v3.c36.s8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c36.s8.21) - [Next: v3.c36.s8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c36.s8.23) - [Up: v3.c36.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c36.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c36.s8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1932.v3.c36.s8.22) · Pramāṇa