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him. Some reinforcements were sent to him and he was joined by Akbar 

 Shah, Eajah of 'Azimgarh, and Shamsher Jahan, zamindar of Mahaul, 

 twenty-three miles north-west of 'Azimgarh. The army was assembled at 

 Akbarpur,* and the small fort of Sarhanpur near the camp was taken after 

 a siege of fifteen days. An advance was then made against Jaunpur, and 

 after six hours' fighting the assailants effecting an entrance made themselves 

 masters of the place. Sahib Zaman Khan still delayed his advance, and turned 

 off towards Nizamabad, thirty-two miles north-east of Jaunpur. After the 

 compromise with Balwant Singh already related, Sahib Zaman Khan with 

 Haji Sarfaraz Khan advanced to take possession of the country north of the 

 Ganges. Not long after this Ahmad Khan, on the approach of Safdar Jang 

 and the Mahrattas, beat a retreat to Farrukhabad. Balwant Singh then 

 marched from Gangapur, some miles west of Banaras, to Mariahu, twelve miles 

 south of Jaunpur, and made a demand on Sahib Zaman Khan for a return 

 of the territory. The contending parties met in battle array, when Balwant 

 Singh's Afghan leaders refused to fight against their fellow-countryman, 

 Sahib Zaman Khan, now that his power was gone. Balwant Singh thus 

 found it advisable to negociate. Sahib Zaman Khan then pitched his tent at 

 Chandipur, and next day, a riot about arrears of pay having broken out, 

 he started alone for Azimgarh. Balwant Singh then plundered his house. 

 Not feeling safe in Azimgarh, Sahib Zaman Khan went on to Bettiah,f 

 where the Bajah gave him shelter. After sometime he returned to Jaunpur 

 and was reinstated by Balwant Singh. On his death he was succeeded 

 by his sons, but they were not men of any mark. J 



The story goes that, when the approach of the Pathans was heard of 

 in Banaras, the leading money-lenders went out as far as Phiilpur, some 

 eight Tcos or more from Banaras, and offered a tribute of two Jcrors of 

 rupees on condition that the Pathans did not enter their city. Even in a 

 dream, they said, if they saw a Pathan a long way off, they began to trem- 

 ble. The two krors were accepted and the Pathans retraced their steps. § 



Siege of Fat eh garb and flight of the Nawdb, 



The Wazir after his defeat at Earn Chatauni returned to Delhi on the 



29th Shawal (20th September, 1750). He found the Emperor had been 



put strongly against him. He was much cast down and for many days 



• never left his private apartments, passing most of the day reclining with 



his hand over his face. At length his wife roused him to exertion and 



* Perhaps the Akbarpur in the Faizabad district about 48 miles north of Jaunpur, 

 t Across the Gandak river in the Champaran district. 

 % Curwen's translation of the Balwantnamah, pp. 25-29. 

 § 'Amad-us-Sa'dat, p. 50, from line 1, 



