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Bisauli is a town in the Budaun district of the United 
Provinces. The earliest historical mention of the town is in 
Ferishta from which the following extract has kindly been. 
sent to me by Mr. H. Nelson Wright: ‘‘ The King (Firoz) ITI) 
appointed one Malik Daud ...to remain at Sambhal with 
orders to invade the country of Katehr every year . . . and not 
to allow it to be inhabited until the murderer was given up. 
The King himself also, under pretence of hunting, marched 
annually in that direction until the year 787 to see that his 
orders were fulfilled... In the above mentioned year he 
built an exceedingly strong fortress at Bisauli, 7 kos from 
Budaun, and called it Firozpir. But the common people, jocose 
amid all the oppression they had suffered, called it Akhrinpir 
(the last city) ; and in truth it happened as they predicted, for 
the grace of God did not suffer him to construct any more 
forts or to lay the foundations of new cities and_towns, and 
consequently the fortress continued to be called Akhrinpir ’’ 
(Tarikh-i-Ferishta E.D. VI. 299). In 1748 when the Rohillas 
usurped this part of the country, Bisauli was placed in charge 
of Dande Khan, who built there several houses, a mosque, 
an wmambara, and a serai, and lived there till his death in 
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rats coined by Dunde Khan. After his death his sons 
and retired only on receiving the famous bond for forty 
this news Hafiz Rahmat marched to Bisaula and thence to . 
- Reinforcements also arrived from the Nawab Vazir 
of Oudh and English under Col. Champion, and the Marathas 
were driven back. The coin now published is dated R. Y. 
14=4.H. 1786-7=a.p. 1772-3, and therefore belongs to this 
time. It was struck very probably by Hafiz Rahmat during 
his stay at Bisauli. No other coins of this mint are known. 
Panna LALL. 
