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menials would tell him that the Nawab Sahib was taking his rest, and he 

 must therefore wait. Then from that day, though alive, he knew he would 

 wish himself dead. Unable to persuade him, his son went back to Faizabad. 

 By another wife, Nasir Khan had two sons (1) Ya'kiit Khan, (2) Muhib 

 'Ali Khan. The first lived up to the time of Shaukat Jang (1813—1823), 

 and he always read aloud in the Imdmbdra. Muhib 'Ali Khan's son was 

 in 1839 a messenger in the employ of Kannu Lai, merchant. Such is God's 

 will, nor can any dependence be placed upon fortune — the grandson of an 

 Imperial Governor had become the servant of a Baniya on a few rupees a 

 month. 



12. Haji 'Abdullah Khan. 



He lived opposite the house of Mir Roshan 'Ali, an employe of Muzaffar 

 Jang's. 



13. Mirzd Aslam Beg " BZdthi nashin" of Delhi. 



He lived close to Haji 'Abdullah Khan (No. 12) and he received five 

 hundred rupees a month. His son, Mirza Khair-ullah Beg, was a poet and a 

 man of parts. On his father's death, he became a fakir, when he passed by 

 the name of Kamtar Shah. His poetical name was Kamtar. He it was 

 who always read aloud in Nawab Amin-ud-daula's Imdmbdra; he lived at 

 the gate of that Nawab's old fort. He died in 1240 H. (26th August, 

 1824— 16th August, 1825.) 



14. Nawdb Haidar Kuli Khdn. 



Formerly Mir Atash or Commandant of Ordnance and Subahdar of 

 Gujrat. He lived in a line with the house of Mir Roshan 'Ali : his allow- 

 ance was Rs. 500 a month. His grandson, Mirza Zahine, a disciple of 

 Maulvi Wali-ullah, was alive till Nawab Shaukat Jang's time (1813 — 1823), 

 and his (Mirza Zahine's) sons, Mirza Sadik and Mirza Ja'far, were in 1839 

 among the Nawab Rais' sowars. The grandmother of Mirza Zahine, Gumani 

 Begam, got old Amethi, on the river, between the city and Fathgarh, from 

 Nawab Muzaffar Jang as nanlcdr, with the land occupied by the fort of 

 Zu'lfikargarh, since resumed by the English. Ahmadi Begam, granddaught- 

 er of Haidar Kuli Khan, was still living in 1839 in the Ghini Wdld ward, 

 with her sons, Mirza Haidar and Mirza Muhammad. 

 15. Nawab Ja'far Kuli Khdn. 



Own brother to Haidar Kuli Khan (No. 14). He died and was buried 

 at Farrukhabad. 



16. Rajah Jugal Kislior. 

 A Bhat by caste. He is said to have spent a fabulous sum at Delhi 

 upon the marriage of his son, the earthen huqqa stands (gurguri) costing 



