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humour. Farrukhsiyar was always ready to take any step, however 
humiliating, which might for the moment postpone decisive action and 
give him time to plan some fresh treachery. Accordingly, on the 9th 
Rabi ‘I. (4th April 1713), on his way back from Wazirabad, a place 
on the banks of the Jamnah, where he had gone to hunt, he paid 
a visit to Qutb-ul-Mulk’s house and embraced him affectionately. He 
deigned to eat his breakfast and take his midday sleep there before 
returning to the palace. Qutb-ul-Mulk, in return for so much con¬ 
descension, made many costly gifts to His Majesty, receiving others in 
return. This is noted as the first public disclosure of the ill-feeling 
between the Emperor and his minister, which went on increasing year 
by year till it ended in catastrophe. 1 
Section 15. Campaign against RIjah AjIt Singh Rahtor 
(Nov. 1713— July 1714). 
As we have already explained, the Rajput states had been for fifty 
years in veiled revolt from the Imperial authority. Bahadur Shah had 
been unable, owing to more pressing affairs, to reduce the Rajahs effect¬ 
ually. During the confusion which arose on that monarch’s death, 
A jit Singh, after forbidding cow-killing and the call for prayer from 
the ’Alamgiri mosque, besides ejecting the imperial officers from Jodh¬ 
pur and destroying their houses, had entered the imperial territory and 
taken possession of Ajmer. Early in Farrukhsiyar’s reign it was de¬ 
termined that this encroachment must be put an end to ; and as the 
Rajah’s replies to the imperial orders were not satisfactory, it was 
necessary to march against him. 8 
At first it was intended that the Emperor in person should take 
the field, but he was dissuaded on the ground that his dignity would 
suffer if the rebel fled into the desert, where there was nothing but 
sand to feed upon. Nor does the Emperor appear to have been in 
particularly good health. 3 Husain ’All Khan was therefore appointed, 
Samsam-ud-daulah receiving charge of his seal as his deputy at Court. 
The plots against the Sayyads were still being carried on in Farrukhsiyar’a 
1 Kamwar Khan, 134, Warid, 149b. 
2 Khafi Khan II, 738. Ahwal-i-Mawdqln, 69b. According to Tod, II., 82, the 
Kajah had been called on to send in his son, Abhai Singh, but had refused. Instead, 
he sent men to Dihli to assassinate one Mukand, his enemy. This outrage pro¬ 
duced the invasion of Jodhpur. Probably this Mukand is the same as Mulkan of 
Mairtha on p. 75 of the same volume. 
3 Farrukhsiyar was ill from the 1st Zu,l Hijjah 1125 H. (18th December 1713), 
but was better on the 9th (26th December), and to stop rumours, he appeared at the 
Jama ’Masjid on the ‘Id i.e ., the 10th. His bathing after recovery took place on the 
22nd (8th January 1714).—Kamwar fChan, 143. 
