66 W. Irvine — The Bangasfi Nawdbs of Farrukhabad. [No. 2, 



Singh and Husain 'Ali Khan, who had both been wounded. On the way- 

 all that could be removed was carried away from Bithur. On Saturday the 

 11th (3rd August 1750), they came to Muhsinpur, some five miles west of 

 Cawnpur. Nest day they arrived at Jajmau, six or seven miles east of 

 Cawnpur on the Ganges, and on the 14th (6th August, 1750), they were at 

 Kanpur, a place five Jcos from Kora. Thence the late Rajah's family was 

 sent across the Ganges towards Lakhnau ; while Bakaullah Khan took up 

 a defensive position at Kora. 



The morning after the victory Nawab Ahmad Khan's army had swollen 

 to sixty thousand men, including the Sahibzadas, the chelas, the men of the 

 Bangash clan, the traders and villagers of all sorts. When the Bamtelas, 

 who had occupied the fort at Farrukhabad heard the news, they were alarmed 

 and fled to their villages. 



After the battle Ahmad Khan sent one of his father's chelas whom he 

 trusted, his name was Bhure Khan, with five hundred matehlockmen, to 

 take possession of Kannauj. His orders were to occupy the fort of Naval 

 Rae called the Rang Mahal, and to take care of all the property. These 

 instructions were thoroughly carried out. There were hundreds of thousands 

 of rupees in cash, and a very large quantity of grain stored. Rahm Khan, 

 chela, used to say that his father, Dilawar Khan, then very young, visited 

 Kannauj a few days after the battle, and at the commander's invitation he 

 went into the Rang Mahal. There were no people in it, but bags of rupees 

 and gold coins were scattered about. There were gold brocade curtains, 

 the doors and lintels were plated with silver and gold, there was a jewelled 

 bedstead with pillows of velvet, and the basons and covers were of gold 

 studded with jewels. Dilawar Khan lived all his life on the proceeds of 

 the things he carried away with the kila'dar's permission, and at his death 

 he left a house and a pot full of gold coins. 



Nawab Ahmad Khan returned to Farrukhabad with great splendour. 

 Sending for the Bibi Sahiba, his step mother, from Mau, he presented her 

 with offerings. He sent out his parties to occupy posts (th&nas) in all 

 the thirty-three mahals, and removed from Kannauj the whole of the pro- 

 perty he had confiscated. 



A local poet, Bhabuti Bhat of 'Ataipur, parganah Kaimganj, produced 

 the following ode on the occasion, for which the Nawab gave him a village 

 in nankdr. 



'Ajab wub Sabib-i-kudrat bai, jin-ne jag sambara bai, 

 Khuda bai, pak-maula bai, wubi parwardigara bai ; 

 Kbara bandah, kamr kas-kar, gbanim upar liye lasbkar 

 Lagi uski 'ajab cbakkar, gbaruri ka kbamara bai, 

 Naval se mard gbazi ko na pucbbi bat paji ko, 

 Naval se mard gbazi ko pabuncb, goli se mara bai, 



