412 N. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 
Ghiyagu-d-din conferred the district as a jagir on Zafar.' The 
name of the town was altered to Zafarébad. There is an inscrip- 
tion at Zafarabad dated A.H. 721 bearing the name of Sultan 
Ghiyagu-d-din which appears to have been recorded by this 
Zafar and which commemorates the change of name of the 
town ? 
Nizamu-d-din Ahmad® states that the fief of Zafarabad 
was granted in A.H. 721 to “one whom he had called his 
n”” an s also granted the title of Tatar Khan. 
These two (viz. Zafar and the holder of the title of Tatar 
Khan) ate possibly one and the same person and, we know 
that Tatar Khan was in possession of the jagir in A.H. 724 
(A.D. 1324) when Sultan Ghiyasu-d-din made his expedition to 
Bengal. 
‘Ainu-l-mulk held the jagirs of Awadh and Zafarabad in 
the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq and went into rebellion 
in A.H. 747 (A.D. 1346); he was defeated and captured but 
eventually reinstated.+ 
Firoz Shah Tughlaq made two expeditions to Bengal and 
on his second expedition either during his outward journey 
or on his return he halted at Zafarabad (either in A.H. 760 
or A.H. 761) during the rains and arranged for the building of 
a new city on the banks of the Gimti which he decided to call 
‘‘Junanpir”’ in memory of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughlaq. 
The Tabaqat-i-Akbart tells us that shortly after leaving 
Zafarabad en route to Bengal Firoz had conferred the para- 
of Safar A.H. 776 (A.D. 1374) at Kanthir, a village in the 
Bara Banki district of Awadh.7 

| Cf. District Gazetteer, p- 150. 
? Cf. ‘* Jaunpur and Zafarabad Inscriptions” —Vost, J.R.A.S., 1905. 
3 Dé’s translation of Tabaqat-i-Akbari, p. 209. 
+ Cf. Brigg’s Ferishta, p- 430, and al-Badaoni (Ranking’s t lnk 
p. 312. 6 Tarikh i-Firoz Shahi of Shams Siraj Afif. 
6 Dé’s translation, p. 246. 
1 Just as I was about to send this paper to the editor and while 
‘on leave in England J.A.S.B., Vol. XVII, N.S. XX XV has reached ime. 
I see that Colonel shee in his very interesting articles ‘‘ Firoz Shah 
0: ah” an i i 

Shah the later Tu s,” has dealt with e nee of events 
a the eastern portion of the Dehli ki gdom mentions that Zafar 
“, “ppeats to have succeede ime to the viceregal appointment of 
t accept Thomas’ state- 
ment that Fath Khan died in AH. 776. It is unfortunate that I have 
d 
Tarikh-i-Mubarak Shahi of Yahya bin Ahmad. I am glad to be able to 
ceserd mins. the unique coin of Fath Khan bearing the title “ c2> 
=p! 3 Gy!” is now in the British Museum. 
