ian 
Vol. IV, No. 10.) The Later Mughals. ae 551 
[N.S.] 
nok like to see the uitiaty pass from the hands of a Sayyid into 
those of 'a Mughal. Then he would launch forth in praise of 
Haidar Quli Khan. The new general justified his “ppoudment 
in the eyes of the army by the alterations which he at o 
introduced. Among other things he re-established the sieghtion of 
former reigns, adopted from European models, of firing off 
salute of ten to twenty field cig. (ralkalahs) whenever the 
emperor entered his quarters from or a hunting ex 
tion is way notice of his tian Ss movements could be 
communicated to the whole camp.! 
other new favourite was Sa‘adat Khin, a Persian from 
Naishapur, then chiefly known as a relation of Ganj ‘Ali Khan, 
lately deceased ?; he had been appointed a few weeks before to be 
faujdar of Hindaun and Biyanah, some fifty to sixty miles south- 
west of Agrah, and as the route of the army lay through his 
district, he remained in attendance. =i paraded his troops daily 
before Husain ‘Ali Khan and made such a great show of zeal 
take his. buffalo ae write his’ receipt. e man ee ed 
** You took it forcibly, Iam not soaked: ”. “Take ‘two / buffaloes 
then,” ; This m1 also was refused, se ue the end fitty buffaloes 
the other side. But ee pushing, energetic man, with his 
way still to make, he may have thought that there was more to 
gain on the side of ‘the malcontent in fo commotion soe 
change of regime® 
_ Section 138. Assassination OF Husain ‘Ali Kain, 
ring this time; between the 9th Za,1 Qa‘dah (6th Septem- 
ber 1720), the date of starting from Agrah, and the 6th Zi,l 

1M asim, Lahori, 343, 344 ; -Kamwar Khin, Khashbal Cand, Berlin 
MS. No. 495, f. 10072. 
For accounts of Sa‘adat Khan see Khafi Khan, — a and Ma xir- 
Cand, ‘ : l BM. 
1624, f. 555, says he was son-in-law of Ganj ‘Ali Khan. Yahya Khan, | 
has Sedi iq Khan, ba muldeimat renter, ba. ene Khan wa saab 
“mangab sore shud. 2 
stam ‘al, 2345, Siig sy 
