Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c40.s2.4
Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c40.s2.4
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v3.c40.s2.4
The Jaipur Rajah Prithvi Singh died on 16th April 1778, being succeeded by his brother Sawāi Pratāp Singh, a boy of thirteen, and the affairs of that kingdom fell into worse confusion than before. When at the close of the year 1778 the Emperor marched into Jaipur in person, the Kachhwa Court sent Firuz with rich presents and some tribute to Najaf Khan’s camp to make peace. The faithless Narukā chief, then in attendance on the Mir Bakhshi, volunteered to promote his overlord’s interests and introduced Firuz to Najaf Khan, but afterwards lured the envoy to Agra and there got him murdered,* after which he seized all the wealth and other belongings of his victim.