134 W. Irvine— The Later Mughals (1707-1803). [Dec. 



gal, Sulaiman Kararani and Daud ; but he had the good sense to keep 

 aloof from them. Bhati seems roughly to correspond with the dis- 

 tricts of Dacca and Maimansingh. Khizrpur on the Ganges is des- 

 cribed as the thoroughfare to and from Bhati. Sonargaon and Agara 

 Sindur on the old Brahmaputra were important cities. 'Isa's resi- 

 dence is said to have been at the populous city of Katrabuh which 

 may be identified with Katibarl near Rabhar in the Manikganj 

 sub-division where there is still a tappa called Kathorabo. Abul 

 Fazl describes in detail the campaigns of the imperial general 

 Shahbaz Khan against 'Isa in 1584 and 1585. There are also some 

 nine other references to 'Isa in the third volume of the Akbarnama, 

 and we are told more than once of his making submission and sending 

 presents. But he was never really subdued. His swamps and creeks 

 enabled him to preserve his independence as effectually as the Aravalli 

 Hills protected Rana Pratap of Udaipiir. 'Isa's death took place in 

 1599-1600 in the 44th year of Akbar's reign. His son Daud, according 

 to Abul Fazl, gave Man Singh some trouble. Ralph Fitch who was at 

 Sonargaon about 1586 mentions 'Isa Khan as ' the chief king of all 

 these countries, ' and ' a great friend to Christians. * Mr. Gait in his 

 paper on the Koch kings of Kamriip, published by the Society in 1893, 

 tells us that Rajah Nar Narayan of Kuch Bihar conferred with the Em- 

 peror Akbar to attack ' the Gaur Pasha ' who was defeated and had to 

 fly to the Faringhis. Mr. Beveridge suggests that ' the Gaur Pasha ' of 

 the Kuch Bihar records is *Isa Khan. 



2. Noviciaa Indices XXI. — An undescribed Indian Musa — By D. 



Prain. 



(Abstract.) 



Three years ago, a native collector in the service of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Shibpur, sent to Calcutta the rootstocks of a Musa 

 from the Jaboca Naga country. The plant has thriven well and has 

 recently flowered. It proves to be a new species, belonging to the 

 section Eumusa, and is now described under the name Musa nagensium. 



3. The Later Mughals (1707-1803).— By Willtam Irvine, I.C.S., 



(retired). 



(Abstract.) 



Mr. Irvine's paper is a continuation of his previous contributions on 

 the subject of the Later Mughals which have been published in the 

 Society's Journal, Part I, in 1896, 1898, and 1903. It completes the 

 story of the reign of the worthless Farrukhsiyar and shows how his 

 various ill-conceived ill-executed attempts to free himself from the two 



