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uring the expedition into Assam (1662-63) the English 
apparently supplied guns to Mir Jumla. We read in Manucci 
of the Englishman Thomas Pratt ‘‘ who had from Mir Jumla 
five hundred rupees a mon nth. He was master of the river side 
and employed in building boats and making ammunition for 
river fighting.” 
On Mir Jumla’s death in 1663-64! the great Shaista Khan 
was appointed to be Viceroy. His first term of office lasted till 
1677. One of his earliest acts was to send his son, Buzurg 
Portuguese pirates who infested the Bay. The result was the 
capture of Chittagong and the settlement of a number of 
pomeaante in the Dacca district, chiefly at Feringhi Bazar. 
In 1672 he granted the English an order for freedom of trade 
throughout Bengal without the payment of any duty. 
idai Khan, generally called Azam Khan, succeeded 
Shaista Khan but he died ? in Dacca the following year. In his 
place the Emperor sent his third son, Prince Muhammad Azam, 
at that time Governor of Patna. Before his arrival in Dacca 
the Government was carried on by the Emperor’s diwan, = 
Saphi Khan, who imposed a tariff on English trade. Prine 
Azam is the person referred to in the diaries of the period as 
“the Prince 
In return for Rs 21 ,000/- he gave the English an order 
(or Nishan) for free trade in ‘Ben ngal. This.was evidently the 
Nishan obtained by Mr. Vincent. 
n the Prince leaving Dacca to assist his father in the 
wars against the Mahrattas, Shaista Khan was sent again 
to Ben ngal. He returned to Dacca i in 1679 with a large train of 
went to Dacca to personally plead the cause of the Company. 
He left believing that he had obtained remission of this as well 
! Pending Shaista Khan’s arrival, Daud Khan, Governor of Patna, 
was sent to take charge at Dace 
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in Dacca. Mir Jumla took a party of them in st army on the heats 
expedition (see Manucci) and Shaista rosioei a company of 5 or 
6 hu to reinforce his army in Assam 1682 ( of Hedges’ Diary 
_ §% During his illness a French doctor w was papi from Hughly to attend 
him. He died in May 1678 (see Hughly Diary, Vol. I). 
