60 W. Irvine — The Bangash Nawabs of FarruJchdbdd. [No. 2, 



Kaimganj, was induced on receipt o£ a revenue-free grant of that village to 

 make an advance of several thousand rupees. Some money is also said* to 

 have been obtained by the plunder of a trader's house in a town sixteen Jcos 

 from Mau, where seventy bags of rupees and one bag of gold had just 

 been received from Lakhnau. 



After some money had been collected in these various ways, the Nawab 

 set up his standard in the Moti Bagh in Chaloli. His force soon amounted 

 to sis thousand men, which rumour magnified into fifty thousand. Here 

 the Bibi Sahiba invested Ahmad Khan with a hhilat as reigning Nawab, 

 and the Pathans presented their offerings. Ghassa, Kurmi was sent to 

 attack the Thana of Shamsabad, some five or six miles east of Mau. On 

 the same day men, who were told off; for the purpose, fell upon all Naval 

 Rae's thanas and overpowered his men. 



Nine days after the first rising Ahmad Khan brought out all his cash 

 and placed it in a tent.f He then proclaimed by beat of drum that he 

 who could not support himself would be permitted, after his third fast, to 

 take from this money, if a footman, one and a quarter anna, if a horseman, 

 three annas. To take more was prohibited ; and those who were well off took 

 nothing. The army, now swollen to some twelve thousand horsemen and 

 twelve thousand foot, marched from the Moti Bagh, and in five days reached 

 the Jasmai gate at Farrukkabad, where they halted near the house of Miyan 

 'Ali Shah. The rains of Bhadwan (July — August) were falling, and as 

 protection against the continuous wet weather, some put up mats, some reed 

 screens, some blankets, and some sheets. There were some even who had 

 nothing and camped in the open. Proposals to attack the Bamtelas of 

 Rashidpur, who had taken possession of some of the vacant forts in the 

 city, were brought forward but rejected by the Nawab. In his opinion 

 there was no need of entangling themselves in such brambles before they 

 had overcome Naval Rae. The march was resumed and the next halt was 

 at Amanabad, parganah Bhojpur, about six miles south of Farrukkabad 

 on the Cawnpur road. 



Battle of Kliudaganj and death of Naval Bde. 

 A short time after the first rising, word had been brought to Naval 

 Rae at Kannauj that the Pathans of Mau had risen and had surprised all his 

 thanas. Naval Rae began by using strong language about stripping naked 

 all those Patkan bakers (ndnpaz) and vegetable sellers (Jcunjra) including 

 their women ; and he swore they should all be trodden to death under the 



* 'Amad-us-Sa'dat, p. 46. 



t Of the kind called Dalcl-Khani, so made that, however strong the 'wind Wows 

 or however heavy the rain is, it will neither fall nor leak. 



