250 Journal of the Asiatie Society of Bengal. [June, 1912. 
Saiyad family of Naishapur in Khurasan. In 1720, as a re- 
ward for his services in helping to overthrow the Saiyads, he 
was created by the Emperor Muhammad Shah, Sibahdar of 
Awadh; at the same time he took the title of Burhanu-l- 
Mulk, by which he is usually known to Indian historians. 
Thereupon, he left the Court of Dehli, went off to his province, 
and continued to spend most of his time geove making 
Lakhnau and Ayodhia his chief residences. It was he who 
first adopted the fish as his badge; the current ees relating 
the reason of his choice I append in the form I heard it from 
an old inhabitant of Lucknow: ‘‘ Burhanu-l-Mulk was saying 
his prayers, with his hands elevated in front of him, on the 
banks of the Jumna, when a fish jumped clear out of the water 
into his hands. Just after this he received the Sibahdari of 
Aw aan 
'H. H. Wilson, who probably never heard this story, 
suggested that the sign of the fish was probably adopted from 
the baronet auspiciousness of the sign Pisces to S‘adat 
Khan’s hou 
Stidat. Khan, dying in 1739, was succeeded by his son-in- 
law Safdar Jang who was also created Vazir of the Empire ; 
the title was adopted as an hereditary one, and he and his 
successors became known as the Nawab Vazirs. Shuja‘u-d- 
daula (1756— 1775), the third Nawab, as well as his successor 
Asafu-d-daula (1775— 1797), held xery important relations with 
the East India Company. Shuja‘u-d-daula struck the medal, 
noticed in the Appendix in Lio Senge of his defeat of the 
Rohillas at the battle of Katra on 23rd April 1774. In 1754 
(the first year of ‘Alamgir II) it is interesting to note,” he was 
given the charge of the Banaras Mint: four years later he 
seized the cate of ee and himself appointed an 
officer to superintend the t which remained in the hands 
the old capital Faizabad, Bi successor was S‘adat ‘Ali, whose 
son Ghaziu-d-din Haidar succeeded to the Nawabi on 11th July 
1814 (22nd Rajab 1229). Lord Moira, after the Pindari war, 
visited him in Lakhnau from March 4th-- 10th, 1818 (24th 
Rabi‘ II-lst Jumada i, 1233 H H.), and induced ane to make 
himself aerery independent of Dehli, to assume the title of 
, and to coin in his own name. e was 
not eenet ai the oth October 1819 (18th au u-l- “hija 1234). 
King aoe Chron., ae x. v (1848), pp. 129- 133, Note on a Medal of the 
on the History of the E.I.C. z : 
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