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There is little reason to doubt Mīrzā ʿAlī Khan Amīn-al-dawla’s remark (Ḵāṭerāt-e sīāsī, ed. H. Farmānfarmāʾīān, Tehran, 1341 Š./1962, p. 87) concerning the intentions of Amīna Aqdas to bring Ḡolām ʿAlī—whom he calls “the essence of dirt and the extract of filth and putridity”—to the inner quarters (andarūn) of the court as an instrument to retain her control over the ageing, and increasingly capricious monarch.
Malijak Darbar
There is little reason to doubt Mīrzā ʿAlī Khan Amīn-al-dawla’s remark (Ḵāṭerāt-e sīāsī, ed. H. Farmānfarmāʾīān, Tehran, 1341 Š./1962, p. 87) concerning the intentions of Amīna Aqdas to bring Ḡolām ʿAlī—whom he calls “the essence of dirt and the extract of filth and putridity”—to the inner quarters (andarūn) of the court as an instrument to retain her control over the ageing, and increasingly capricious monarch.