174 W. Irvine— Later Mughals (1707-1803). [No. 2, 
Khan Jahan was sent for to Court. Neither the emperor nor the 
princes were well disposed towards him. Wherever he turned, no 
smile greeted him, no brow smoothed its wrinkles. The emperor refused 
even to read his petitions, owing to the disrespectful language in which 
they were couched. At length, ‘Azimu-sh-shan had pity on him, and 
after some exertion, the swbah of Orissa was granted to him, with the 
office of deputy under the prince in Bengal. ‘This man was received in 
audience by Farrukhsiyar at the town of Sirajgarh, in sarkar Farrukh- 
abad (or Munger) of s#bah Bahar.! All honour was done to him. 
The prince’s chief man, Ahmad Bég (afterwards Ghaziu-d-din Khan 
Ghalib Jang), was sent to escort him, a rich khila‘t was conferred on 
him, his sons, and his chief companions. At the time of his leaving, 
Khan Jahan made loud promises that he would help. But he took no 
steps in that direction. Then one Muhammad Raza, who had been 
Deputy-Governor in Orissa, before the appointment of Khan Jahan, 
went off to Akbarnagar (Raj Mahal) to visit that noble on the pre- 
tence of further negociation. In the end, on one pretext or another, 
neither one nor the other appeared again. ‘Ali Asghar Khan,® son of 
Kar Talab Khan, Ansari, who had been made faujdar of Itawah (stbah 
Agrah), and Chabélah Ram, Nagar, then faujdar of Karrah Manikpur, 
subah Allahabad,* showed no eagerness to take up the prince’s cause. 
There remained only the two brothers, Hasan’ ‘Ali Khan (‘Abdullah 
Khan) and Husain ‘Ali Khan, Sayyads of Barhah, who owed to ‘Azimu- 
sh-shan the governments of Allahabad and Bahar, which they then 
held. 6 
8. Account oF THE BARHAH SAYYADS. 
The Sayyads of Barhah claim to be descended from Abi-l-farah, of 
Wasit in Mesopotamia. Several hundred years ago, at-a date which 
cannot be fixed exactly, Abu-l-farah and his twelve sons came from 
Wasit to India, settling at first in four villages near Patialah, in the 
sarkar of Sahrind and stbah of Dihli. From these villages the four 
1 Strajgarh, a mahal in sarkar Mungér (Ain, II, 155), on the right bank of the 
Ganges 20 m. W. of Mungér (Thornton, 929). 
2 At Dihli on the 27th September 1712 (26th Sha‘ban 1124 H.), it was reported 
that Khan Jahan, Bahadur, and Murshid Quli Khan were marching to Patnah to 
reinforce A‘zzu-d-din against Farrukhstyar, (Valentyn, IV, 801). This report was 
quite unfounded. 
3 See M-ul-u, I, 829-832, under his subsequent title of Khan Zaman B., born c. 
1085 H. (1674-5), d. 4th Zi‘l-hajj, 1155 H. (29th Jan., 1743), 7-i-Mhdi. 
4 For C. BR. see M-ul-u, II, 328. Dya. Bahadur was killed on ‘Azimu-sh-shan’s 
side at Lahor in Safar 1124 H. (March 1712), see ante p. 150. 
5 Tjad, 59 b, 60 a; Khafi Khan, II, 715. 
