Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c47.s2.9

v4.c47.s2.9

The ceremony of the public recognition of the heir to the throne was timed for 7th November 1791, after several previous changes of date. As soon as the doting king called upon his nobles to attend, there was a mutiny among them; the barons who were the king's kith and kin however distant, refused to stultify themselves by saluting as their sovereign "the son of a slave-girl, the son of a demi-wife"—for that was Mān Singh's legal position after he had accepted the Pāsbāni as his "mother by adoption." The nobles left the city in a body and formed a rebel camp in another town.