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was in the service of Ahmad Khan, without whose leave he could not go. 

 Najib Khan told him that he should not have accepted such a lowly posi- 

 tion. Hafiz Rahmat Khan informed him that there were others, for Sa'dul- 

 lah Khan and his whole army had been subsidized, their expenses had been 

 paid from the Nawab's treasury, to that date seven lakhs of rupees had 

 been advanced. He promised to go next day and ask the Nawab for per- 

 mission. The next day, Ahmad Khan having made no objection, Hafiz 

 Rahmat Khan and Najib Khan commenced their march. When they 

 reached Khudaganj, Shekh Kabir was asked to accompany them. They 

 paid their respects to the Emperor, and then went to Shuja'-ud-daula. They 

 told him he ought to return to the east again. At length the Emperor 

 and Shuja'-ud-daula set out eastwards. When they arrived at Korah, Najib 

 Khan and Hafiz Rahmat Khan took their leave. Najib Khan followed the 

 route to Delhi, while Hafiz Rahmat Khan returned to his own camp. Next 

 morning, Nawab Sa'dullah Khan and the other Rohelas came to take leave 

 of Nawab Ahmad Khan. He distributed gifts and dismissed them. The 

 Shahjahanpur leaders also, 'Abd-ullah Khan and others, were given leave 

 to go, after gifts and dresses of honour had been conferred on them. 



Shuja'-ud-daula taJces refuge at Farruhhdbdd. 



After his defeat at Baksar on the 23rd October, 1764, Shuja'-ud-daula 

 first sought aid from the Rohelas at Bareli, and for safety removed his 

 women and jewels to that place. As the Rohelas declined to enlist on his 

 side against the English, the Wazir and Hafiz Rahmat Khan came to* 

 Ahmad Khan at Farrukhabad. Not succeeding in inducing any of the- 

 Pathans to join him, Shuja'-ud-daula marched eastwards, only to be again 

 defeated in May, 1765, at Korah-Jahanabad. Having again fled to Far- 

 rukhabad, he was persuaded by Ahmad Khan and Hafiz Rahmat Khan to 

 come to terms, the result being the treaty signed at Allahabad in August, 

 1765.* A long speech by Ahmad Khan, dissuading from hostility to the- 

 English, will be found set forth in the " Siyar-ul-MutdJcharin."\ 



A few anecdotes connected with Shuja'-ud-daula's visit have been 

 handed down. The encampment was at Haiyat Bagh, and then at Fath- 

 garh. One day the Pathans suggested that the Irani (Shuja'-ud-daula) 

 should be murdered, since his father, Safdar Jang, had murdered five of 

 the Nawab's brothers. The Nawab is said to have replied that treachery 

 was not the habit of his family ; by God's grace, he killed his enemies, if at 

 all, in the open field. 



* Aitchison's Treaties, Vol. II, p. 76= 

 t Edition, 1789, Vol. II, p. 367. 



