Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c38.s4.7

v3.c38.s4.7

But the threatening storm did not burst at once. Two months more were to pass in alarms and excursions, plotting and counterplotting at Court, before the contest was put to the arbitrament of the sword. After long negotiations, in which the harem superintendent Nāzir Manzur Ali warmly backed Shafi, the Emperor decided to appoint him Mir Bakhshi, for a fee of five lakhs, on the next auspicious day, which was the first of the sacred month of Ramzān (10th August.) This was a crushing blow to Afrāsiyāb; but he promptly countered it by begging the Emperor to restore Abdul Ahad to the head of his administration. Shah Alam jumped at the prospect of getting his bosom friend back after three years of enforced separation. The appointment of a new Mir Bakhshi was put off, and instead of it Abdul Ahad was received again at Court and reappointed to all his former posts (11th August.)