JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



Part I— HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 

 No. II.— 1879. 



The Bang ash Naiodbs of FarruJchdbdd — A Chronicle, (1713 — 185?). — By 

 William Irvine, C. S., Fatehgarh, N. W. P. Part II. 



{Continued, from p. 383 of Vol. XLVII, Part I, 1878.) 



Nawdb Imam Khan, and the Confiscation of the Territory, 

 After Kaim Khan had been buried, the Bibi Sahiba sent for all her 

 husband's sons, and dissimulating her wish to see Imam Khan succeed, 

 directed Ahmad Khan to assume the leadership. Ahmad Khan, who had 

 quickly penetrated her designs, gave a decided refusal. One after another, 

 each son made the same answer. At length Imam Khan was selected and 

 took his seat upon the masnad. He seems to have enjoyed little real autho- 

 rity. Although they attended to salute him no one presented any nazar ; 

 for months not a single kauri of revenue came in. After a time men 

 ceased even to go near him, since he had no income from any source, by 

 which he could assert his title. 



"When news of the defeat and death of Kaim Khan reached Delhi, many 

 were deeply grieved and wrung their hands with sorrow ; on the con- 

 trary, Abd-ul-Mansur Khan Safdar Jang was rejoiced, and at once laughed 

 and joked about the sad event. He then persuaded the Emperor that if 

 he proceeded to Farrukhabad in person, the surviving Bangash leaders would 

 be deprived of all excuse for not attending and submitting themselves. Even 

 if they should refuse to obey and decline to deliver up their wealth, the result 

 would be the same ; they would be compelled to take to flight, and thus they 



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