Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s5.5
Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c55.s5.5
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v4.c55.s5.5
The sons and nephews of Shah Alam, being driven to despair by their very niggardly allowances and the utter blankness of their future, one after another broke out of their prison-palace in Delhi and escaped to Oudh, the Deccan or Afghanistan.* These escapades created at the time some alarm and confusion but no real harm came out of them.