10 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
were struck: as is not unlikely, merely to commemorate the 
accession of the new fainéant, that event could not have oc: 
curred before 2nd October, 1788, which answers to 1 Muharram, 
1203 A.H. 
Again, one of the copper coins bears the mint-name Shah- 
jahanabad. If any importance can be attached to this super- 
scription, that is, if the coin is taken to have been realiy struck 
at Dehli, the nominal inauguration of the second puppet could 
not have taken place after 11th October, 1788 A.C., for we know 
that on that day Ghulam Qadir “ finally departed, leaving the 
Salimgarh by a sally-port and sending before him the titular 
Emperor, * * * and ail the chief members of the royal family. 
(Keene, op. cit., 185).! 
It is true that the companion /fulas exhibits the name 
Ahmadabad, but it: is not improbable that this coin was, like the 
Ahmadabad issues of Bedar Bakht, minted, as Mr. Master has 
conjectured, ‘‘ not very far from Shahjahanabad.”” (Num. Sup. 
XXII, p. 165.) The rupee in the Lahor Museum was ascribed 
by Rodgers to Akbarabad, but the reading ‘‘cannot be justi- 
fied” and the name must for the present be pronounced il- 
legible. 
a word, 7/ tt is granted that these coins were first struck 
at Shahjahanabad in 1203 A.H., it follows that the nominal 
accession of Muhammad Akbar which they were perhaps in- 
tended to mark, must have taken place at some time between 
was “‘ hemmed in by difficulties’ on all sides and he may have 
S. H.. HopivaLa. 
15th June, 1929. 
228. THE ColsaGe oF THE SHarqi Kines oF JAUNPUR. 
1. History and Chronology. 
Only meagre information regarding the history of the rule 
of the independent Muhammadan Kings of Jaunpir is obtainable 
from the works of contemporary historians, few of whom have 
attempted to compile a history of the dynasty. 
Information on the subject has to be searched for from 


It is perhaps worth noting that the’ Calcutta newswriter also 
speaks of Ghulam Qadir having been accompanied in his flight to Meerut 
not only by ‘* Bedar Shaw ” but by ‘* several other princes.” 
