
512 = Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1908. 
the Allahabad province. The downfall of his patron was dis- 
tinctly opposed to his interests; but, as the saying is, “the earth 
is hard and the sky far off.”"'! From that moment he stood aloof 
from the Sayyids, in an attitude are far removed from rebellion ; 
and his name was mixed up with all the rumoured projects having 
be dated from the middle of Ramazan 1131 H., (August 1719), just 
a little before the time that Agrah fort was re-captured and the 
movement in favour of Nekisiyar suppressed. Troubles raised 
by Jasan Singh, zamindar of Kalpi, instigated by Muhammad 
Khan, Bangash, and his agent, Rustam Khan, Afridi of Mau- 
Shamsabad, had kept Chabelah Ram busily occupied within his 
own province, and had prevented his marching to Agrah. As the 
fort at that place had now been recovered and Jai Singh, Sawae, 
bought off, it was necessary to deal next with Chabelah Ram, 
more especially as his contumacy barred the road to a remittance 
from Bengal, which had been detained at Patnah.? 
His nephew, Girdhar Bahadur, son of the late Dya Ram, had 
been summoned to Dibli just before Farrukhsiyar’s removal from 
the throne; and after that event, Chabelah Ram’s discontent be- 
coming known, irdhar Bahadur was detained at the capital in a 
sort of honorable captivity. When the Wazir started for Agrah 
with the emperor, Rafi‘-ud-daulah, Girdhar Bahadur was placed 
in charge a Lutfullah Khan, Sadiq, and by him entrusted to his 
son, patys! ‘Ali Khan? This custodian visited his prisoner 
Ram and his opposition. That very ota Girdhar Bahadur fled, 
having ere over his pus ard. At dawn fifty horsemen spr: 
Bahadur returned to Allahabad. ‘I'his place - was already atl 
rare Sayyid ‘Abdullah Khan had detached ‘Abd-un-nabi 
Khan against it with six thousand horsemen; and on Husain ‘Ali 
Khan's part, Daid Khan, deputy of Muhammad Khan at Gwaliyar, 
was ordered on the same service at the head of three thousand 
men, with whom he marched through Karrah to Allahabad. 
Diler Khan, a slave of the Bangash oe! joined ‘Abd-un-nabi 
Khan at Itawah with fifteen hundred m 

0 Goren 
1 Zamin aakht wa asman dar, Khnshbl Cand, Berlin MS. 495, fol. 9988. 
: Kinet hal Cand, Berlin MS. 495, f 
8 Or Hidayat-ullah Khan. He was pg econd son and died in"1177 H. 
(1763-4), Muhammad ‘Ali Khan, et aa of ti ee Tarikh- ori Sab was this 
man’: oes sixth son (see that work ~~ the sixth year of Ahmad Shah). 
4. ine MS., 
5 Siwanih-i- 

