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and for six days open entertainment continued. A wet-nurse named 'Akila 

 was appointed. In reply to the Nawab's letter, the Emperor sent the fish 

 dignity, with a title and a dress of honour, for the child. Ahmad Khan 

 having erected a Guldlbdr at the 'Idgah, the child was placed in a pdlTci 

 and sent out to it in state to receive the Emperor's gifts. The dress was 

 put- on the child, and he was invested with the title of Muzaffar Jang. 

 Salutes were fired, gold and silver were given away, the naubat was beaten, 

 and with joyful demonstrations they returned slowly to the fort. When 

 the child was four years, four months and four days old, he was taught the 

 Bism-illah and sent to school. He was made over to a tutor (atdlih) , and 

 learned men were appointed to teach him. In a few years he finished his 

 education, and then he began to be instructed by his father in state affairs. 



. First visit of Ghdzi-ud-din Khan ' ' Imad-ul-mulk. 

 During Ahmad Shah Durani's fifth expedition, in 1170 H. (26th Sept. 

 1756, 15th Sept. 1757), Ghazi-ud-din obtained his leave to raise a fine from 

 the country between the Ganges and the Jamna. His object would appear 

 to have been to force money from Shuja'-ud-daula, Nawab Wazir of Audh. 

 Accompanied by two princes of the Delhi house, Hidayat Bakhsh, son of 

 'Alamgir II, and Mirza Babar, son of that Emperor's brother, 'Azuddin, and 

 the Durani troops under Jan Baz Khan, Ghazi-ud-din Khan proceeded to 

 Earrukhabad. He had sent on his own troops under Mir Yahya Khan, 

 son of Zakariya Khan. Ahmad Khan came out to meet his visitors and pre- 

 sented appropriate presents. The army soon after crossed the Ganges and 

 marched as far as the stream called the Garrah, on the boundary of the 

 Audh territory. Shuja'-ud-daula, leaving Lakhnau, came out as far as Sandi 

 and Pali, sixty-eight miles west of that city, in order to oppose the invaders. 

 At length, by the good offices of Sa'dullah Khan Bohela, the matter was 

 settled by a payment of five lakhs of rupees. On the 7th Shawal 1170 H. 

 (25th June, 1757), Ghazi-ud-din Khan and the two princes re-entered Far- 

 rukhabad. 



Meanwhile Ahmad Shah Durani had retreated rather suddenly from 

 Mathura to Delhi ; and there, on the recommendation of the Emperor, who 

 complained of 'Imad-ul-Mulk, the Durani king appointed Najib Khan to 

 be Amir-ul-Umra, and left him in charge of the capital. 'Imad-ul-Mulk 

 immediately retaliated by creating Ahmad Khan Amir-ul-Umra, and by 

 appointing him to the post of imperial Bakhshi.* Ghazi-ud-din Khan then 



* It appears from the Tarfkh-i-Muzaffari that this appointment was renewed by 

 Shah 'Alam. When, on the 5th Rajab 1175 H. (30th January, 1762), Shuja'-ud-daula 

 was invested with the office of Wazir, Ahmad Khan was made fourth Bakhshi. 



