peshkash

Updated: May 1, 2025

The Mirza was aided in this campaign by the force of 5,000 men, with artillery, contributed by the new Viceroy of Audh, as part of the peshkash, or fine for the investiture, and for the succession to the office of Vazir of the Empire, which had been held by his father, and which he desired to retain against the counter-claims of the Nizam and of other competitors.

H. G. (Henry George) Keene - Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan