560 Fragments of the history of Mooltan. [Nov. 



Sohrab's arrival, Hajee Khan with his son Ghazee Khan, and many of 

 their kindred and tribe, came from Kech Mekran to enter the service of 

 the Sooltan. 



When the tracts along the Indus were in the hands of Mulik Sohrab 

 and Hajee Khan, Mulik Sohrab founded a Dera named after Ishmael 

 Khan, and Hajee Khan another with the name of Ghazee Khan. 



During the lax and indolent rule of Muhmood, the grandson of Sool- 

 tan Hoossein, Ghazee Khan seized the greater part of the dependencies 

 of Mooltan and assumed the government. On the death of Ghazee 

 Khan, his son Hajee Khan succeeded to the same extent of authority, 

 and, taking advantage of the weakness of the government of Hindoo- 

 stan,* took possession of several districts on the Indus, towards the 

 south, and became independent. His successors, each on the death of 

 his father, took the name of his own grandfather, — being thus Ghajee 

 Khan and Hajee Khan alternately. 



When Mohummud Hoomayoon Badshah reigned at Delhi, and the 

 countries of the Punjab, Mooltan and Sindh came into the hands of 

 the Chooghutta princes, Ghazee Khan the 5th, having come and pre- 

 sented himself before the above named Badshah, and made presents, 

 obtained the Dera, (Ghazee Khan) and its dependencies in jageer : the 

 charge of these districts and of all their affairs being committed to 

 him. In like manner throughout the Choghtaee supremacy, the jageer 

 above named was secured to his family in regular succession. 



In the year 1152 H. (A. D. 1739,) Nadir Shah fought and con- 

 quered Mohummud Shah, emperor of Hindoostan. Mohummud Shah 

 resigned to Nadir Shah the fort of Attok, and other places to the 

 north and west ; also Mooltan, the Derajat, the country of Sindh, and 

 Cabul.f When, consequent on this, the Badshah, with the design of 



* Now under Ibrahim Lodee. 



t" The act of cession is thus given by Haaway in his history of Nadir Shah — 

 after preface : — 



" The ministers of the Sultan, who is merciful, and the emperor, who is august, 

 formerly sent ambassadors to us to treat of certain demands with which it was our 

 purpose to comply. The ambassador, Mahommed Khan Turkuman, not long since 

 arrived here from Kandahar to remind us thereof; but our ministers having 

 delayed the embassador and postponed answering the letters of his sublime majesty, 

 it at length produced such a misunderstanding between us, that his victorious army 



