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brother. The Nawab then ashed his name, and he was told it was Daim. 

 Ahmad Khan said he would adopt him and gave him the titles of 'Azim 

 Jang Muhammad Daim Khan Bahadur, but he was popularly known as 

 the Chhote Nawab. When he grew up he was married with great display 

 to Muni Bibi, the daughter of Bakhshi Fakhr-ud-daula. 



In his childhood the Emperor Ahmad Shah had held him in his lap, 

 fed him and with his own hand put on his shoulders miniature kettle-drums 

 (nakkdrah and dauM), thus conferring upon him the " naubatP 



In 1839 buildings still existed in the city,, which had been built by this 

 chela. (1.) There was a masonry bridge (known still as " Bul-pnlchta"} , 

 in the middle of the city, which had stood then the heavy traffic of 

 seventy or eighty years. There were also (2) a masonry well with steps 

 at the Mau gate, which is still in existence, although out of repair, and (3) a 

 mansion within the fort, to the north of the Imambara ; it was afterwards 

 occupied by Ahmad Yar Khan Naib (died 9th December, 1839) ; and in 

 1839 was known by the name of Himmat Bahadur's house. (1) Daim 

 Khan's Mahal-Sarae was at one side of the fort, in the low land, surroun- 

 ded by the houses of poor people ; and near it was a private enclosed garden 

 (Khdna bdgli). His descendants dismantled the buildings, sold the materials, 

 and having consumed the proceeds, handed over the land to cultivators. (5) 

 He also planted the bdgh near the Mau gate called the Chahar Bagh, after- 

 wards in the possession of the Nawab Rais, and (6) he planted a bdgh and 

 made a masonry well with four runs near the Madar Darwaza, traces of 

 which existed in 1839. (7.) There is a Daimganj adjoining the town of 

 Chibramau, which he established and named it after himself. 



So long as the parganah belonged to the Farrukkabad Nawab, Daim 

 Khan was thejiominal manager of Parganah Shahpur-Akbarpur (now in the 

 Cawnpur district), Thejdgir of Pukhrayan in that parganah was continued 

 to him by Miyan Almas 'Ali Khan, the Audh 'Amil, and it remained with 

 the family till it was sold by auction in 1815, in execution of a decree of the 

 Civil court. 



Daim Khan himself paid no attention to business, he left all such work 

 to Tcdrindas who embezzled the money. Nawab Daim Khan would then 

 be forced to pay out of his pocket, or would beg Ahmad Khan to remit the 

 amotmt. His whole time was spent in taking his ease, in hunting with 

 falcons or bajri (a kind of hawk), in shooting tigers, in chitct hunting, in 

 wrestling or gymnastics, in listening to singing or looking on at dancing. 

 Nawab Ahmad Khan had given him lakhs of rupees or goods, by way of 

 present, but he squandered it all in his pleasures. By Muni Bibi he had 

 three sons : (1) Daler 'Ali Khan, entitled Fath Jang, (2) Rustam 'Ali 

 Khan, (3) Ahmad 'Ali Khan. Daler 'Ali Khan had a son, Madar Khan, 

 who turned faJcir and took the name of Mahncli Shah. Rustam 'Ali Khan 

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