1877.] H. Blochmann — Delmerick^s Hdnsi Inscriptions. 119 



83, 256) , mentions the Dogars as a tribal element in Hansi, and refers to 

 the worship of Goga Pir, a local saint, who is invoked in the district be- 

 tween Hansi and the Ghara. Vide also Atkinson, Gazetteer, N. W. Pro- 

 vinces, Vol. Ill, p. 516. 



It is curious that Hansi is not mentioned by the historians of the 

 reigns of Jahangir, Shah Jahan, and Aurangzib. Nor do the inscriptions 

 given below belong to this period of Indian history. 



The Tazhirali-i-Saldtin-i-CliagJitdi mentions several times one Nahir 

 Khan, a Shaikhzadah of Hansi (1122 H., or A. D. 1710), who was Faujdar 

 of Dholkah in Gujarat and Diwan of Ahmadabad. During the reign of Mu- 

 hammad Shah, Shahdad Khan Khweshagi was appointed Faujdar of Hansi 

 and Hisar, " which district from old times had been a bed of rebellion, and 

 which, in consequence of the weakness of the government, had for some 

 time paid nothing into the imperial treasury." Shahdad reduced the forts 

 of the districts, and kept the rebels down. He chiefly employed men of his 

 own clan. 



The ' Imdd-ussa' ddat (Lucknow edit., p. 125) mentions that Muham- 

 mad Bashir Khan received from Nawab Najaf Khan Bahadur the district 

 of Hansi and Hisar. 



In the end of last century, Hansi became for a short time (1798 to 

 1801) the capital of George Thomas, of Tipperary, whose short-lived king- 

 dom comjDrised Hansi, Hisar, Mahim, Bhadra, Sidhmukh, Siwani, Behal, 

 Jamalpur, Tosham, Agrowah, Barwala, and Jind, which, with several 

 places he held of the Marathas, yielded a revenue of 430,000 Eupees, 

 the former revenue derived from the same places having been Rupees 

 2,010,000 (vide Franklin, Memoirs of George Thomas, p. 92). When 

 Thomas chose Hansi as his capital, the walls of the city had fallen 

 into decay ; and ' as the town had long been deserted', he had great difficulty 

 in procuring inhabitants. By gentle treatment he collected about six thou- 

 sand people. In the end of 1801, he was attacked by the Marathas under 

 Perron and had to surrender. In the middle of January, 1802, he was escorted 

 to the British frontier. He intended to proceed towards Calcutta, in 

 order to retire from public life. But death overtook him, on the 22nd 

 August, 1802, at Berhampur in Bengal, where he lies buried. 



Of Hansi celebrities I have to mention the following — 



1. Shaikh Jamal. He belongs to the great saints of India. He 

 was a descendant of the renowned Abu Hanifah of Kufah. Shaikh Farid- 

 uddin Ganj-i-Shakar of Ajodhan (Dipalpur) was his friend and lived with 

 him for twelve years at Hansi. From his oratorical powers, he was called 

 ' Khatib', the preacher, or Kutb-i-Khuttab, ' the pole star of preachers.' 

 One of his treatises has the title of ' Mulhamat.' He died in 659 H., or 

 A. D. 1261, and lies buried at Hansi. 



