The Army of the Indian Moghuls: Its Organization and Administration c27.4

c27.4

Disastrons consequences followed from these jealousies among the great men and nobles. As one writer aptly says a noble was *hasad-peshah*, “one whose profession was envy”. In military matters we have not to go far in our search for examples of this jealousy and its consequence, base treachery. At Jājau in 1707, Zūlfiqār Khān left A‘zam Shāh to his fate, because he had been made to serve under Bedār Bakht, that prince’s son. Again, in 1712, the same Zūlfiqār Khān stood aloof at Āgrah, in the hope that his rival, Jahāndār Shāh’s foster-brother, might be destroyed, leaving him to reap the benefit of an unshared victory. In this same battle we see treachery at work, the troops of Turānī race having been bought over by the other side. Instances might be multiplied *ad infinitum*.