1844,] the Kumaon and Rohilcund Turdee. 899 



bhul*, and implored for aid against his enemies. At that time (1747 

 a.d.), the extraordinary power obtained by the Rohillas had greatly 

 alarmed the imperial Government, already sufficiently weakened by the 

 Mahrattas and by Nadir Shah, and very strong efforts had been made 

 to reduce them, attended with considerable success. Twenty-two 

 descendants of the old Kuttair Rajahs are said to have been present 

 in camp, headed by the chief of Thakoordwarafi all clamorous for pro- 

 tection. The Kumaon Rajah did not sue in vain, and the result of 

 his visit to Sumbhul was a renewal of his sunnuds for the Chowrasee 

 Mal> and the abandonment of the territory by the Rohillas, with the 

 exception of the Eastern tract at Surbna and Bilheree, besides sundry 

 marks of imperial favor. Soon after his return to the hills, he died, 

 and the year of his death (1748 a.d.) also saw the decease of the 

 Emperor Mahommed Shah and the adventurer Ali Mahommed. 



9. The history of Rohilcund between the years 1748 and 1774 



a.d. is well known. The constant conflicts 



Reign in Kumaon of Deep between the Soobahdar of Oudh, Softer Jung 



p h raneoura d cco h u e nt C o? te K m o: and the Rohilla chiefs, attended occasionally 



hilcund to its conquest of with no small disgrace to the arms of the former, 



by the Nawab Wuzeer ot ° 



Oudh in 1774 a.d. (and through him to those of his master the 



Emperor Ahmed Shah,) terminated in the utter 

 discomfiture for a short period of the latter, by the introduction of the 

 Mahrattas and Jdts into the disputed territory as the formidable allies 

 of the Wuzeer. Then followed, as might be expected, the usurping 

 occupation of Rohilcund by those very allies themselves, and the at- 

 traction to that fertile quarter of their swarming countrymen from the 

 Deccan. The revolutions which dethroned and blinded Ahmed Shah ; 

 which first exalted and then brought down to death his puppet succes- 

 sor, Alumgeer II ; which linked together in the bands of temporary 

 amity the regicide and self-elected Wuzeer Ghazee-ud-Deen, and 

 many of the Mahratta leaders, — the advance of Ahmed Shah Doo- 

 ranee, and the repetition at Delhi of some of the horrors enacted under 

 Nadir Shah ; and afterwards, on the departure of the Abdallees from 

 Hindoosthan, the overwhelming height to which the flood of Mahratta 



* I believe that the Sote then derived its name of Yar Wnfadar, when the pucka 

 bridge was built for the army, the Emperor having called it, " Yar Wufadar did 

 tumun Sote " 



t Whose family is now, 1 believe extinct. 



