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Omrah being killed in the battle, the surviving nobles 
submitted to the conqueror, who appointed Nizam- 
ool-Moolk to the vacant dignity, to the disappoint- 
ment of Saadet Khan, who seems to have expected 
it. The conqueror demanded an enormous ransom 
for the city, which Nizam-ool-Moolk, as chief of the 
nobles, was collecting, when the recreant Saadet 
Khan, to undermine his rival and conciliate the 
conqueror, magnified the wealth of Delhi and occasioned 
an additional fine, the difficulty in levying which 
brought on a quarrel between the inhabitants and 
Nadir’s troops, and a few Persians being slain, the 
city was given up to indiscriminate massacre and 
pillage. Saadet Khan, finding that his ambition had 
brought on so much evil without any benefit to him- 
self, took poison. He was succeeded by his nephew 
and son-in-law, Abdool Munsoor Khan, who in turn 
was succeeded by his son, Shuja-ud-Dowlah, the first 
of the family who came in contact with the British 
government.” * 
The present King of Oude succeeded his father in 
the year 1827. “ He is styled His Majesty Aboo 
Nuseer, Kootub-ud-Deenh, Solimon Jah, Zuman Pad- 
shah, King of Oude. He was at the time of his Re- 
cession about twenty-six years of age, and is described, 
in Captain Mundy’s interesting f Sketches of India/ as 
a plain, vulgar-looking man, about the middle stature, 
with a complexion unusually dark, and his mental 
endowments, pursuits, and amusements by no means 
of an elevated or dignified order. 
* Historical Sketch of the Princes of India, p. 72, 3. 
