1879.] W. Irvine — The Bang ash Nawabs of FarruMialdd. 137 



rattas, after the great defeat at Panipat in January 1761. The Mahrattas 

 withdrew from the Duab, and Ahmad Khan took possession of all the par- 

 ganahs ever held by his family, and perhaps of some to which he had no 

 claim. On the other hand, Shuja'-ud-daula wished to maintain him within 

 the limits fixed by the treaty of 1752 and asserted his own right to all the 

 recovered territory. 



Another motive, which acted strongly on Shuja'-ud-daula, was the shel- 

 ter given to Umrao Gir Gusain. Umrao Gir had fled from Lakhnau with 

 Hatya, a favourite dancing girl of the Nawab's, and came to Farrukkabad 

 with his twelve thousand fighting Nagas.* He encamped in a bdgh near 

 the city, and was introduced through Fakhr-ud-daula, Bakhshi. The Nawab 

 determined to retain the Gusain in his service, although his advisers tried 

 to deter him, pointing out that the Gusain's contingent was too 

 powerful^ nor had they money to pay him. Ahmad Khan said he could not 

 turn away a supplicant, a thing he had never done. Umrao Gir was sent 

 to Kasganj to Koshan Khan, chela, (known as Miyan Sahib), then 'Amil 

 of the eight and a half mahals. 



Himmat Bahadur wrote to his brother, remonstrating with him for 

 leaving the master who had brought them up and joining a ruler whose 



* Anup Gir Himmat Bahadur and his younger brother, Umrao Gir, were chelas of 

 the Rajah Indar Gir (or Gaj Indar Gir) whom we met before at the siege of Allaha- 

 bad (p. 79) and elsewhere. The original abode of this Gusain was in the jungle 

 near Moth, in Bundelkhand, thirty-two miles from Jhansi. About 1744-5 he acquired 

 many villages in that Parganah (Gaz. I, 550). In 1750 he entered Safdar Jang's 

 service, and in 1752 he was killed near Delhi. Himmat Bahadur (Anup Gir) died in 

 1804 at the age of seventy, when Narindar Gir, his son by Fakhr-un-Nissa Begam of 

 Lakhnau, was still a minor. By article 3 of the Agreement, dated the 4th September, 

 1803, made with Himmat Bahadur, it appears that Rajah Umrao Gir, his brother, was 

 then in confinement at Lakhnau, on account of a conspiracy against the Nawab Wazir's 

 government. — Aitchison, II, 225, ed. 1876. By a grant, dated the 1st March, 1806, the 

 assignments in Bundelkhand were exchanged for a territory in the Cawnpur district, 

 named Rasdhan, about forty-three miles south-west of Cawnpur city, in Parganah 

 Sikandrah, which lies in the south-west corner of the district between the Jamna 

 and the Sengar. This estate yielded a revenue of Rs. 1,357,000 a year. The families 

 of Umrao Gir and Kanchan Gir also received pensions (Gaz, I. 41.) OnNarindar Gir's- 

 death in 1840, the estate was sequestrated in payment of debts by order of the 12th 

 May, 1841. The debts had barely been cleared off when the mutiny of 1857 broke 

 out. Jai Indar Gir (son by Lalan Begam) and Padam Indar Gir (son by Ruba Begam) 

 became rebels, and two-thirds of the parganah was confiscated. The two brothers 

 were given an allowance of Rs. 100 a month. Jai Indar Gir died in June or July 

 1876 ; the other brother survives. One-third of the income, amounting to Rs. 28,780 

 a year, is paid to the widow of Narindar Gir, known as the Raj Rani, who for the last: 

 thirty years has lived in the city of Cawnpur. 

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