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12. Prince A‘zzU-D-DIN’S ADVANCE TO KaJWAH, HIS DEFEAT AND 
FLIGHT TO AGRAH. 
_ When Jahandar Shah heard of the defeat of ‘Abdu-l-ghaffar, the 
defection of Abdu-llah Khan, and the march westwards of Farrukhsiyar, 
he sent ureent orders to his son A‘zzu-d-din to move onwards from 
Agrah, in the neighbourhood of which he had lingered. The prince 
was not well pleased at his supercession in the supreme command, and 
furthermore was far from friendly to his father’s favourite, Lal 
Kunwar. These causes may have led him to conduct the enterprize in 
the half-hearted way which was so soon to result in disaster. Nor 
could much reliance be placed on the leaders of his troops, some of 
whom were found, so early as the Ist Rajab (8rd August 1712) to be 
in traitrous communication with the enemy. From intercepted letters 
it was found that seven artiliery officers had offered to go over to 
Farrukhsiyar followed by many other officers and twenty thousand men. 
The ring-leaders were seized and thrown into prison; but disaffection 
pervaded the entire army, their pay being much in arrear. This force, 
numbering some 50,000 horsemen,! accompanied by powerful artillery, 
now set out on the march towards Allahabad. On the day that they 
reached the Itawah boundary, the faujdar of that place, the ‘Ali Asghar 
Khan already referred to, appeared, and to gain time entered into nego- 
ciations. The imperial leaders demanded from him the revenue of the 
current year, which owing to the contested succession, had not heen 
collected. They also called for the accounts of previous years. These 
demands, which in A‘zzu-d-din’s own interests were very inopportune, 
were evaded by the faujdar with excuses founded on the revenue rules 
and by pleas about his accounts. This dispute continued from stage to 
stage until on the 2nd Shawwal 1124 H. (Ist November 1712) they 
arrived near Korah.? 
At Korah they were met by Mahta Chabélah Ram, faujdar of Cak- 
lah Karrah Manikpur, * and as already noted, a protégé of Farrukhsiyar’s 
18 m., Sarae Jagdis, 183 m., Jhisi, 38 m., total 83 miles. Sipahdarganj was fpro- 
bably so named after Sipahdar Khan (see ante p. 173, n. 4), who was governor of 
Allahabad from the 37th to the 41st of ‘Alamgir, 1104 H-1108 H., 1692-1696, 
M-ul-U., 111. 591. Possibly the Subahdarganj on plate 44 of Constable’s Hand Atlas 
is a corruption of this name. It lies one mile west of the Khusri Bagh and just 
south of the H. I. Railway. t 
1 Yahya Khan, 120 a, asserts that A‘zzu-d-din’s force was really no larger than 
One sent as an escort ' badraqah). 
2 Khafi Khan, JI, 715 ; Ijad, 70 b ; Valentyn, IV, 299. 
8 Or, as Ijad says, of Korah. 
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