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appointed to high office in the court of Mahabat. Khan I, the 
wab of Junagadh. In the hurly-burly of the State politics, 
this same Amarji some eleven years later became the victim of 
a foul conspiracy, fomented by a vegetable seller, and the 
to the care of the Nawab’s favourite wife, the Bibi Sardar 
Bakhta, who is said to have treated him like a mother. With 
while retired to Jetpiir, was invited back to Jfinagadh and 
there reinstated in his former office, the child-hostage being at 
the same time restored to his father. At the expiry of another 
administrator. Suffice it to say that, driven from office no less 
than six times, he was as often restored. On one occasion 
in conquering the country, their houses being plundered and 
their treasure confiscated. On his release two months later he 
ship for fifty years, could Carry on the administration of 
the Government properly. The Diwan Sahib, true to his salt, 
now accepted the office ‘‘in prepetuity for himself and his 
descendants.”’ Three years later we find him on pilgrimage 
to Nasik-Tryambak for the purpose of bathing in the Godavari- 
Ganga, the river whose banks, as already stated, are held 
