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tured. His head was sent to Akbar, and his body was shown on 
the gibbet at Tanda which Khanjahan had soon after occupied." 
Khan Jahan, and bi his death towards the end of 987 H. 
(December 1579 A.D.), Muzaffar Khan, 
Mughal-Govetnors:”. had thelr headquarters at Tanda. During 
the great military revolt of the Amirs, the Kaksals crossing 
over from Gaur occupied the town. Muzaffur who had taken 
ae in the fort, ‘‘ which was nothing better than four walls” 
ab. 
) 
possession of the fort in 989 H. (1581 A.D.). Towards the 
end of the 28th year (1584 A.D., 992 H.), Khan-i-’Azam Mirza 
Koka reoccupied Tanda, and broke the back of the rebellion by 
inducing a number of the rebel chiefs to submit. In the 29th 
year Wazir Khan was appointed governor of Bengal, and held 
his headquarters at Tanda till his death in the 32nd year 
(995-6 H). Said Khan became the next governor till the 40th 
year, when Bengal was made over to Mansingh, who had been 
governor of Bihar, Tirhut and Orissa. 
Mansingh removed the seat of government from Tanda to 
Rajmahal, in the 40th year (1595-6 A.D., 1003-4 H.), accord- 
ing to Blochmann. In the Ain, completed in 1596-7 A.D., 
Tanda appeared as the capital, the sarkar being also named 
after it, having a mint that issued silver, copper, and probably 
gold coins.” The fluctuations in the river course, no doubt, 
brought on this transfer to Rajmahal. Already in 1588 Ralph 
Fitch had noticed that the river had receded a league off from 
the city. After the removal, the town dwindled away. It 
appeared in history again in 1660 A.D., as the place where the 
rince Shah Shuj‘a retired erecting redoubts, and probably 
repairing the old fortifications. The river at the time flowed 
a ; he m 
(1726) as “‘Thandah’’ and in Rennell’s Atlas (1779-81) as 
‘* Tarrah ’? (see the sketch map). It has now disappeared, hav- 
ing been destroyed by floods about 1242 H. (1826 A.D.).* 
RAJMAHAL, AKBARNAGAR. 
Under its old name Ak, it came into prominence as the last 
battle-field of Daud on 12th June, 
peng ay, 1576 A.D. At that time it had on one 
Peg H. flank a mountain, and on the other a river 
p —the Ganges.’ Ak-mahal appears in the 
1 Akb, na@., vi, p. 55; Tab. Akb., v, p. 400; Bad., ii, p. 249. 
Ain., ii, pp. 129,130 (with the largest revenue in the sarkar) ; for 
the mint, i, p. 31. : 
‘ 8 Riyaz, p. 221. Hedges calls the place.of battle Buglagotte, Diary, 
i, p. 87. 4 J.A.8.B., 1895, p. 216. 5 Tab. Akb., Elliot, v, p. 397. 
