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language, she replied in similar terms ; whereupon he took off his shoe and 

 struck her. She began to beat her head and breast, and went to the principal 

 Pathans, telling them it had been better if God had granted daughters only 

 to Muhammad Khan, and she called down God's curse on them, the turban- 

 wearers, for allowing her, the wife of an Afridi, to be beaten with a shoe 

 by a Hindu from the Kotwali (police post).* Piustam Khan, a wealthy 

 Afridi, and several of the leaders from each tuman went to the Bibi Sahiba's 

 entrance gate, and told her that they would no longer submit in silence to 

 the oppression of Naval Rae. She asked their plans. They told her that 

 if she would place one of her sons at their head to lead them on to victory, 

 they would attack Rajah Naval Rae. She counselled them to dismiss such 

 idle thoughts from their minds, for how could she join them while five of 

 her sons were in the fort at Allahabad, and five of her principal chelas in 

 prison at Delhi. When Rustam Khan and the others found the Bibi 

 Sahiba turned a deaf ear to them, they resolved on other plans. 



Nawab Ahmad Khan Ghdlib Jang. 



Ahmad Khan, second son of Nawab Muhammad Khan, during the 

 lifetime of his elder brother, Kaim Khan, lived for some time at Delhi. He 

 had taken a farming lease of five parganahs, Sakrawah and others, from 

 his brother Kaim Khan. Instead of remitting the revenue he spent it on 

 a silver howdah, such as none but Kaim Khan used, and caused a fan of 

 peacock's feathers to be waved over his head. Mahmud Khan Bakhshi 

 denounced Ahmad Khan to Nawab Kaim Khan, and at his instigation a 

 thousand horse were despatched to Sakrawah with orders to cut off Ahmad 

 Khan's head. Having received word of their approach Ahmad Khan 

 escaped to Rudain in Parganah Kampil, thirty miles north-west of Far- 

 rukhabad, where his father-in-law lived, and thence he made his way to 

 Delhi, where he placed himself under the protection of Ghazi-ud-din Khan 

 Firiiz Jang. When the war with the Rohelas broke out, he managed with 

 the connivance of Firuz Jang to escape from Delhi at midnight, without 

 receiving the Emperor's permission. We have already mentioned the part 

 he took in the campaign. 



After the confiscation of the territory and the return of the Wazir to 

 Delhi, Ahmad Khan lived in retirement at Farrukhabad in his house, known 

 till a few years ago as the " Kacha Kila' " (the mud fort), near the Bihisht 

 Bagh. He could barely afford to keep two servants and a boy Ramzani, 

 the son of an old servant of the house. Some months passed in this way> 

 when one day in the month of Sawan (July) fifteen men from Mau, each 



* Amad-us Sa'dat, p. 46, from line 2. Ahmad Khan was I believe at Farrukhabad, 

 so I have omitted his name from this story, the scene of which is Mau. 



