Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c52.s6.3

v4.c52.s6.3

The newly enthroned Shrimant immediately plunged into sensual enjoyment in private, while he made an outward show of constant religious devotion worthy of the priestly head of a “Government belonging to Brāhmans and cows.” The ship of State without a helmsman drifted from bad to worse. The veteran prime minister, though nominally restored to his supreme position, “remained sulking as a private onlooker, unable to exercise any effective control over the administration.” As the price of this political *coup* all the claims on the Nizam were written off by Nānā.