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off my stockings ( mnzah )Although inwardly raging, Husain ‘Ali Khan 
could do nothing else but comply. 1 
That the young man was not altogether devoid of sense, is proved 
by the story of a dispute that arose once between Qutb-ul-mulk and 
Rafi‘-ud-darajat. A warrant of appointment having been signed, next 
day the wazjr bronght a second order giving the same post to another 
nominee. The Emperor asked : “ Is it the same village, or another with 
the same name ? ” He was told it was the same one, but this man 
was fit for the place and offered more than the other. The Emperor 
said it was foolishness to act like that, and threw the paper on the 
floor. 2 
Section 8.—The Emperor’s Deposition and Death. 
In the confusion and hurry attending his accession, no heed had 
been paid to the state of RafP-ud-daraja-t’s health. He was afterwards 
found to be far advanced in consumption, he was also addicted to the 
use of opium ; and from the day that he ascended the throne, he became 
weaker and weaker. By the middle of Rajab (June) it was evident 
that his days were numbered. He then told the Sayyads that if they 
would comply with his most earnest desire, and raise to the throne his 
elder brother, RafP-ud-daulah, he should die happy. Accordingly on 
the 17th Rajab (4th June 1719) Rafi‘-ud-darajat was deposed and sent 
back into the harem. Two days afterwards (6th June, 1719), RafP-ud- 
daulah was seated on the throne in the Public Audience-hall within 
the palace at Dihll. On the 24th Rajab (11th June, 1719) RafP-ud- 
darajat expired, and was buried near the shrine of Khwajah Qutb-ud- 
din. 3 
Appendix (RafP-ud-darajat). 
Age. At his death RafP-ud-darajat was about twenty years of age ; 
the words waris-i-taj (1111 H.), “ heir to the crown,” giving the year of 
his birth, Khafi Khan, II, 816. The Jdm-i-Jam gives the precise date 
as the 8th Jamadi II, 1111H. (30th November, 1699); Mirza Muham¬ 
mad, TarlTch-i-Muhammadl , declares that he was only sixteen or seven¬ 
teen years of age at his death. A chronogram for that event is :— 
Gun jan-i-Shahanshah RafV-ud-darajat 
Rah just ha sdyah-i-nihdl-i-tuba, 
Rizwdn ha dar-i-hihisht iqdcim Jcundn 
Guftd : “ khuld-i-barin maqam o mdwaT 
1 Khafi Khan, II, 821, Khushhal Oand, E.M. MS. No. 3288, fol. 415a. 
2 Yahya Khan, 127b. 
8 Warid, 159a, Tdnkh-j-Muzaffarl, 1G5.- 
