8 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
the folio in the hope of lighting upon some details which Keene 
had missed or left out, but the labour proved unfruitful. A 
search through the ‘Imadu-s-S‘adat—another of Keene’s 
authorities (Kahnputr Lithograph, 1897 A.C.)—turned out to 
be equally infructuous. However, some time afterwards, I was 
delighted to find a clue to the solution of the puzzle in Seton- 
Karr’s ‘ Selections from the Calcutta Gazettes.’ 
In the first volume of this compilation, there is a long ac- 
count of the ‘ Revolution at Dehlee’ extracted from the ‘Cal- 
cutta Gazette’ of Thursday, August 21st, 1788, which begins 
thus: ‘On the 2nd instant, Ghoolam Cadir Khan and Ismail 
Beg Khan deposed the king Shah Alum and placed on the 
throne of Hindostan, Beidar Bukht. son of Ahmud Shah and 
grandson of Mohummud Shah. The circumstances of the re- 
volution extracted from the authentic Dehlee papers are as 
(Op. cit. I. 262.) This lengthy account does not con- 
tain anything new and may be passed over. In the immediate- 
ly consecutive number (August 28th), the blinding of the em- 
peror is recorded. ‘‘ Maleeka Zemanea widow of Mohummud 
Shah and Sahibah Jahul (recte, Mahal, see ED. VIL, 250), an 
the mode in which it was carried out with ‘“‘a Peshcubz or 
short sharp-pointed dagger” must have made “ the horrid act 
of barbarity peculiarly agonizing to the last degree.”’ (Ib. 266.) 
After this there is no reference to Dehli or its misfortunes for 
just three months. But the following item of news was pub- 
lished in the issue of December 4th, 1788. ‘‘ Nothing partic- 
ular has of late transpired at Delhi; the last accounts from 
that quarter announce the continuance of Golaum Kadir Cawn, 
