Rajah Ghalib Jung was the superintendent of the City Police, and commandant of a Brigade of Infantry, and a prime favourite of the King, Nuseer-od Deen Hyder, for two years, up to November 1835.  He had many other employments, was always in attendance upon the King, and was much liked by him, because he saw his orders carried into immediate effect, without any regard to the rank or sufferings of the persons whom they were to affect.  For these two years he was one of the most intimate companions of his sovereign, in his festivities and most private debaucheries.  He became cordially detested throughout the city for his reckless severity, and still more throughout the Court, for the fearless manner in which he spoke to the King of the malversation and peculations of the minister and all the Court favourites who were not in his interest.  He thwarted the imbecile old minister, Roshun-od Dowlah, in everything; and never lost an opportunity of turning him into ridicule, and showing his contempt for him.

The King had become very fond of a smart young lad, by name Duljeet, who had been brought up from his infancy by the minister, but now served the King as his most confidential personal attendant.  He was paid handsomely by the minister for all the services he rendered him, and deeply interested in keeping him in power and unfettered, and he watched eagerly for an opportunity to remove the man who thwarted him. Mucka, the King’s head tailor, was equally anxious, for his own interests, to get rid of the favourite, and so was Gunga Khowas, a boatman, another personal servant and favourite of the King.  These three men soon interested in their cause some of the most influential ladies of the palace, and all sought with avidity the opportunity to effect their object.  Ghalib Jung was the person, or one of the persons, through whom the King invited females, noted for either their beauty or their accomplishments, and he was told to bring a celebrated dancing-girl, named Mogaree.  She did not appear, and the King became impatient, and at last asked Dhuneea Mehree the reason.  She had often been employed in a similar office, and was jealous of Ghalib Jung’s rivalry.  She told his Majesty, that he had obstructed his pleasures on this as on many other occasions, and taken the lady into his own keeping.  All the other favourites told him the same thing, and it is generally believed that the charge was true; indeed the girl herself afterwards confessed it.  The King, however, “bided his time,” in the hope of finding some other ground of revenging himself upon the favourite, without the necessity of making him appear in public as his rival.