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served grudgingly, more than once sending i in his resignation. 
It was the same in Jahandaér Shah’s reign. is services to 
Farrukhsiyar at the time of Jahandar Shah’s overthrow secured 
him the government of the Dakhin, a region in regard to which, 
as there can be no doubt, he had cherished secret projects ever 
since the oe of ‘Alamgir. Nizam-ul-mulk, like his father, 
Khan ipiiee conahiy did, he must have seen that it offered a 
splendid opening for acquiring partial, perhaps even complete, 
independence of Dihli and its sovereign. He had held the six 
siibahs for hardly more than two years, when he was superseded 
by Husain ‘Ali Khan 
his supersession rankled apparently in his mind, for he with- 
to his new appointment at Muradabad, and only returned 
% ‘i Suite at Farrukhsiyar’s urgent request. Unable to work 
with Farrukhsiyar, he went over nominally, as we have seen, to 
the faction of the wazir and his brother. Being anxious to 
secure his absence from Dihli, they offered him the government 
of Bihér, a difficult charge which they hoped would fully employ, 
even if it did not exhaust, his strength. Before Nizaém-ul-mulk 
slight wasn by him a gt n! are ‘Ali » ban, Marahmat 
had been superseded in his command at Mandi by Khwajam 
Quli Khan.? geek arose about giving over that fort, and after 
these bat been me, Marahmat Khan, instead of being re- 
moved by Ni ledte-nl GE: was employed in ejecting Jai Cand, Pie 

“2 org from Bengal were received at Agrah on the 19th Rajab ( 24th 
yl 
1 Mir Ibrahim, Marahmat Khin, belonged to a A peace 7h family. 
He was the third son of Ante Khan, Kabnli. (d, 1109 H So son of Khalilullah 
Khan, Yazdi, N "agar He died while —-, of Patnah on the 17th 
Mui 1138 H,, 24th ee ar aged 45, Ma,agir-ul-umara. 11, 713, 
and Tarli-t Muhammad ( (1138 F. stead of Ranagarh the Tarikh-i-Muzaf- 
ari, 4 173, has Rajgarh, and adds faa t parganah Canderi was invaded, 
Quit ( ally Begl Kha th of a 
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