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battle. Ghiyas. Khan was placed in command of the vanguard, 
having under him Shekh Muhammad Shah! and his brother, 
Nirullah, Fariqi, heads of the artillery. In the right centre 
was ‘Iwaz Khan, x@zim of Barar (lichpur) and the Nawab’s 
nele by marriage,* with his son, Jamalullah Khan, Anwar Khan, 
Hakim Muhammad Murtaz& and others. Mar ahmat Khan, Fil 
Jang, was on the left centre. ‘To the right wing was posted 
Pp Beg Khan, Harisi; and to the left, ‘Abd-ur-rahim Khan 
(unele of Nizam-ul-mulk) and Qadir Dad Khan, Raushani 
din Khan and Mir Ahsan, bakhshi, took their place i in the a tre. 
Ra‘ayat Khan, Nizim- ul-mulk’s first cousin and the brother of 
Muhammad Amin Khan, Cin, was left in charge of the town of 
Burhanpur, while Rustam Beg Khan was told off to protect the 
rear of the army. Fathullah” Khan, Khosti, and Rao Rambha 
aaa, the Mahrattah, with five hundred men, acted as skir- 
mishers.® 
The site of the battle, as we are told, was in the hil illy 
country called Pandhar® between Burhanpur and the Narbada, 
and Nizam-ul-mulk himself says that he had marched forty kos 
from Burhaupur. pod Heys out four kos from his last camp 
before he met the enemy, and the battle did not begin until the 
re aa (13th Sha‘ ban 1132 H., 19th June 1720). Dilawar ‘Ali 
Khan had occupied a rising eround to the east of the Nawab. 
Leaving his baggage at the foot of this hillock, Dilawar ‘Ali 
Khan sent out his advanced guard, consisting ae some three 


this man see Ma‘agir-ul-umara@ II, 708, under his title, Shuja‘at 
H., 1737- 
2 Mhd Kamal, Sabot aaah, "Jitas emg Bahadur, Qaswar Jang, died 
mulk’s grandfather. M-ul IY, 2, and ieec Wetooaadl ee 
#2) y 
3 His father aegis reps ae Khan, second son of Sa‘dullah Khan, 
M-ul-u., TI, 520. cousin of Nizém-ul-mulk, who was also a 
— on his Bing: Ss 8 ide of Sa‘ sp Khan, Shahjahan’ S wazir. 
These two men were sons of Jan Nisar Khan, M-ul-u., I, 537, Darab 
tea corwacill Jan Nigar ehas: penkeea jdar of Kora Jahanabad (sa#bah 
Alias abad), where » he was murdered in Ramazan 1144 H. poet gi ip 
afi Kh an, II, 876 ; pr Ae rey III, 877 ; Ahwal-ut khawaqin, 
ie kin 17th Sha‘ban; Gulshan-i-‘ajzib, 1324. The 
date is the ith mirth, Jane) i in  Khushbal Cand, Berlin MS. 495, f. 10024, and 
in Burhén-ul- pou 
6 For the position "a Pandhar, and its possible conenetion with the 
Pindharies, see my in the Indian ee ary for May 1900. Rustam 
‘Ali, Tartkh-i-hindi, a says the battle was fought near Qnsbah Khandwa, 
which is not far from Asir. This place ee j ales 32 miles N. of Burhanpur 
and about 60 miles S.-W. of Handiya. It is now the civil station of the 
Nimar district of the Central nd ete ison _ Gazetteer, oad = pa 
muzaffarz, p, 181, has “ B usain 4 kos from Burhan 
npur, 
the name in thé “* Asiatic Siicoutienp (1785), an caaeale: Of out ered 
(Nigim-ul-mulk) translated by Henry Vansittart (the younger) sia & 
Persian work, of which the title is not given 
