Note 230 — Chapter VI · THE KING.

In the Dooraunee empire, the Suddozyes had the exclusive right to royalty. Sooja ul Moolk was the last of the race in Caubul. The Essufzyes were hereditary viziers: the Barukzyes, the family of Dost Mahomet Khan, hereditary commanders in chief: the union of the vizierat with the military command in Dost Mahomet’s father, led to the ultimate ruin of the Suddozye princes. In the Mogul empire, the great offices of state became hereditary, and the historians of India could speak of the Vizier of Oude, the Nizam, the Peishwa or the Guicowar, long after the throne of Aurungzeb had crumbled to the dust.