56 W. Irvine—The Bangash Nawabs of Farvukhdbdd. [No. 2, 
“ office ; had we only arms by us, we should try first what our swords could 
do.” Having said this, he stretched out his feet to be fettered, and each 
of the other princes, out of affection for his brothers, claimed to be ironed 
first. This indignity having been completed, they were placed in litters 
under guard, and forwarded to the fort at Allahabad. The news of their 
arrest spread consternation and despair amongst all the Afghans. 
By direction of the Wazir, Rajah Naval Rae now took up his quarters 
at Kannauj, forty miles south-east of Farrukhabad, near the junction of 
the Kadlinadi with the Ganges. This place was selected as being midway 
between the two Subahs of Audh and Allahdébaéd and the new territory ac- 
quired from the Bangash family. Naval Rae lived in the Motiya Mahal, 
built by the founder of the large sarde at Miran-ki-Sarde, which he re-chris_ 
tened the Rang Mahal. Directly under his orders he had forty thousand 
horsemen. ‘There were in addition the troops commanded by Nawab Baka- 
ullah Khan, Amir Khani Nawab ’At4-ullah Khan, former ruler of ’Azimd- 
bad, Mirza ’Ali Kuli Khan, Mirza Muhammad Ali Kochak, Mirza Najaf 
Beg, Mirza Mashadi, Aka Muhammad Bakir Yarmani, Mir Kudrat’Ali Khan 
Daipuri,* Mir Muhammad Salah Miranpuri.t From Kannauj were des- 
patched subordinate rulers (dmils) and collectors of revenue (sazdwals) 
with orders to proclaim from lane to lane through all the villages the de- 
feat and degradation of the Pathans. These agents, in their rapacity, 
acting even in excess of their instructions, began to levy fines from every 
inhabited place up to the confines of the towns of Shamsdbad, ’Atdepur 
and Kaimganj. The town of Mau alone escaped. It owed its safety to 
the number of Pathans inhabiting it, of the tribes of Bangash, Afridi, 
Toyah, Khatak, Ghilzai, Warakzai, Kochar, Dilazak, Khalil and Mahmand, 
These stood ready day and night to repel force by force, but they refrained 
from beginning hostilities, for fear of injury to the Bibi Sahiba who re- 
mained in the custody of Naval Rae. 
It was arranged that Munshi Sahib Rae, an old servant of the Bangash 
family, who knew Naval Rae before, should be sent to him. Being of the 
same caste and having already made Naval Rée’s acquaintance at Delhi, in 
a few days he managed to be admitted to the drinking bouts, which took 
place every night in the Rang Mahal after business was over. One night 
Naval Rae got drunk, and knowing a little of the Shdstras began to talk 
on religion, boasting also of his bravery. Séhib Rae, pretending to be 
* Daipur is in Parganah Kannavj, it is the easternmost village adjoining the first 
village in the Cawnpur parganah of Bilhor. 
+ This Miraénpur is, I suppose, the town in the Barha Sadat of the Muaffarnagar 
district, 16 miles cast of Khatauli, The ’Améd-us-Si’dat (p. 48), tells us he was a Barha 
Sayyad. 
