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the fort known as the Peshkhanah. He left it and moved into his own 
mansion in the city. Some five to six thousand of the Emperor’s own 
troops (the Wald Shahi), and all Samsam-ud-daulah’s retainers marched 
out of the fort. The following appointments were then made : Sayyad 
Najm-ud-din ‘All Khan (with 1‘tiqad Khan as deputy) to be Daroghah 
of the Privy Audience, vice Samsam-ud-daulah ; Sayyad Khan Jahan 
(with Zafar Khan as deputy) to be commandant of the imperial artil¬ 
lery ; ‘Abd-un-nabI IQian to be head officer of the Mace-bearers; 
Sayyad Shaja‘at Khan to be the head officer of the Jilau, or retinue ; 
Nijabat ‘All Khan to be Nazir or head of the Harem; and Sayyad 
Ghairat IQian to be Governor of Agrah. Farrukhsiyar insisted that as 
the celebration of the Nauroz , or New Year’s day, was so close at hand, 
I‘tiqad Khan and the other old officials should continue to act for a few 
days as the deputies of the new office-holders. But in spite of the 
* remonstrances addressed to him by his own people, Farrukhsiyar 
agreed that on the day of the interview, the gates of the fort and the 
doors of the palace should be held by Husain ‘All Khan’s men. 1 
During these few days the city was full of rumours, and fear 
spread among all classes. Daily the nobles were seen hastening to and 
fro in vain efforts to arrange the question in dispute. Even Qutb-ul- 
mulk professed to be exerting himself in the same direction. It is said 
that in those few days Rajah Jai Singh several times pointed out to 
Farrukhsiyar many indications that the other side meant to come to 
no arrangement. It were well then, he urged, before matters went 
beyond mending, to take the field and fall upon the Sayyads, All 
would rally to his side, he, Jai Singh, had with him nearly 20,000 tried 
and trusty horsemen, and until the last breath had left his body he 
would fight for his master. Their enemy was not likely to resist long. 
Even if the Fates were unpropitious, they would have escaped, at any 
rate, the taunt of being cowards. All was in vain. The infatuated 
Emperor persisted in his attempt to buy off the Sayyads by concession 
after concession; and a few days afterwards, yielding to the insistance 
of Qutb-ul-mulk, he, by a note written with his own hand, ordered 
Rajah Jai Singh and Rao Budh Singh to march from Dihli to their 
own country. The Rajah was told that the following day was an 
“ auspicious moment” for a start, and as his robe of honour on depar¬ 
ture accompanied the note, he need not wait for a farewell interview* 
1 Khafi Khan, II, 806. The Nauroz would fall on 29th Rabi‘ II, 20th March, 
1719, Kamwar Khan, 189. 
* Shiu DaB, 236, gives the words of Farrukhsiyar’a note. Jai Singh’s auto¬ 
graph to the Rana’s minister (Tod I, 370) conforms generally to the Mahomedan 
