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return was made to the fort in the order in which they had come. At the 

 fort all the nohles, chiefmen and bankers attended to congratulate the 

 Nawab, and made their offerings. Next day, rich gifts were bestowed on 

 the dancers, the buffoons and the story-tellers. Suits of clothes were sent 

 to every noble, to the Nawab's brothers and brothers' sons, to the chiefs of 

 the Bangash tribe and to the employes of the State. 



Mahratta affairs: 17 '52— -1771. 



We have already described the rather complicated arrangement made at 

 the peace of 1752. Saf dar Jang tben owed thirty lakhs, or as some say, eighty 

 lakhs of rupees to the Mahrattas, as their pay for the time they had been in 

 his service. This debt was transferred to the shoulders of Ahmad Khan, and as 

 security the Mahrattas were to obtain sixteen and a half out of the thirty- 

 three mahals then forming the territory of Farrukhabad. The Mahrattas, 

 as usual, were the sole gainers, while Safdar Jang had no more than the 

 empty gratification of having humbled his enemy. 



At one time the Farrukhabad state is said to have consisted of forty- 

 four mahals, but of these it is impossible to identify twenty-one, the names 

 of which have not been handed down. Of the remaining thirty-three, six- 

 teen and a half were assigned to Mulhar Rao by a grant on copper, while 

 a corresponding deed on copper for the other sixteen and a half mahals was 

 made over to Ahmad Khan by the Mahratta. The grant was in the name of 

 Mahmiid Khan, the Nawab's son, and it stated that so long as a slave of 

 the Bangash family was in existence, no Mahratta should interfere with 

 those mahals. 



The thirty-three mahals were as follows : — 



1. Shamsdhdcl. — In the Farrukhabad district ; it is now divided into 

 S. West in Tahsil Kaimganj, S. East and Muhamdabad in the Sadr Tahsil. 

 In the Nawab's time it included Tappa 'Azimnagar now in the Eta district. 

 (Kali Bae, p. 101.) 



2. Birivar. — The old name of Bewar in the Mainpuri district, Gaz. 

 IV. 657. 



3. Bhongdm. — Also called Bhonganw, in the Mainpuri district. It 

 then included the present parganahs of Mainpuri and Kishni-Nabiganj, 

 Gaz. IV. 670. 



4. Kampil. — Now Kampil-Kaimganj in Tahsil Kaimganj, Farrukha-. 

 bad district. 



5. Patidli. — Eta district, Gaz. IV. 174. 



6. Sahdivar. — Now Sahawar-Karsana, Eta district Gaz. IV. 181. 



7. Sakith.— Now Eta-Sakith, Eta district, Gaz. IV. 187. 



8. Mdrahra.-~H.dli of the parganah. Now in the Eta district, Gaz. 



