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as he smoked the hugqah into his face ; and on the 12th day after 
the accession, he destroyed the same throne for the plating which 
still adhered to it. On the 7th September, 1788, Ghulam Qadiy 
left Dilhi, sending Bedar Bakht before him, and threw himself in- 
to the fort of Mirat. On the 21st December, he was attacked by 
the Mahrattas under Rana Khan and De Boigne, and distrustful of 
his Pathans, he escaped the next day, when he was caught and sent 
a prisoner to Sindiah. Bedaér Bakht was carried to Dihli, where he 
was confined and ultimately slain.* 
A drawing of the coin will be published in the Journal. 
2. From Babu Rashbih4ri Bose,—dated Banka, 8th April, 1871,— 
“T have at last seen the Hindu work on Kharakpur, which I 
have repeatedly mentioned to you, but instead of being a History 
of Kharakpur, as I had expected it to be, it is unfortunately filled 
with descriptions of the beauty of six hundred Ranis of one of 
the Rajahs of Kharakptr. The only thing interesting in it is the 
line of succession it gives of the Rajahs, which is as follows :— 
1. Sangram Shah. 
2. ta Mall. 
38. ate Singh. 
4, Tahawwur Singh. 
5. Kaigobéa. 
6. owe 
re wisi ’Ali. 
Tt is this last Rajah who owned 600 Ranis. The author of the 
work is one Brahmo Dutt Chobay, a native of Ch’hetar (in my Sub- 
Division), who wrote in Falgoon, 1807, Sambat, when the Rajah 
was living. From the work it would appear that the Kharakpur 
Rajahs trace their descent from the Solar race of the Kendowar 
caste. 
It is plain from the above table that Toral Mall is identical with 
the Rajah whom the Muhammadan Historians call Roz-afatin, so 
named after his conversion to Islam. According to popular le- 
* Vide Keene’s Mogul Empire, pp. 172 to 183, 
