Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c42.s2.7
Fall of the Mughal Empire v3.c42.s2.7
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v3.c42.s2.7
And the females of the species nursed even greater malignity. Mālika-i-Zamāni, the honoured chief widow of the Emperor Muhammad Shah, who lived in her own mansion outside the fort walls, had nursed her step-son Ahmad Shah, the Emperor, and could not forget that Shah Alam’s father had seized the crown by robbing Ahmad Shah of his heritage and eyesight. So, she now offered Ghulām Qādir twelve lakhs of Rupees as the price of replacing Shah Alam by Bidar Bakht, the captive son of Ahmad Shah, and she was known to have amassed much wealth of her own. Sāhiba Mahal, another widow of Muhammad Shah and the mother of the great Durrāni conqueror’s wife Hazrat Mahal, joined her in this project. [DY. i. 309. But Ibr. iii. 137 gives ten lakhs.]