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language, she replied in similar terms ; whereupon he took off his shoe and 
struck her. She began to beat her head and breast, and went to the principal 
Pathdns, telling them it had been better if God had granted daughters only 
to Muhammad Khan, and she called down God’s curse on them, the turban- 
wearers, for allowing her, the wife of an Afridi, to be beaten with a shoe 
by a Hindu from the Kotwali (police post).* Rustam Khan, a wealthy 
Afridi, and several of the leaders from each twman went to the Bibi Sahiba’s 
entrance gate, and told her that they would no longer submit in silence to 
the oppression of Naval Rae. She asked their plans. They told her that 
if she would place one of her sons at their head to lead them on to victory, 
they would attack Rajah Naval Rae. She counselled them to dismiss such 
idle thoughts from their minds, for how could she join them while five of 
her sons were in the fort at Allahabad, and five of her principal chelas in 
prison at Delhi. When Rustam Khan and the others found the Bibi 
Sahiba turned a deaf ear to them, they resolved on other plans, 
Nawib Ahmad Khin Ghalib Jang. 
Ahmad Khan, second son of Nawab Muhammad Khan, during the 
lifetime of his elder brother, Kaim Khan, lived for some time at Delhi. He 
had taken a farming lease of five parganahs, Sakrawah and others, from 
his brother Kéim Khan. Instead of remitting the revenue he spent it on 
a silver howdah, such as none but Kdéim Khan used, and caused a fan of 
peacock’s feathers to be waved over his head. Mahmid Khan Bakhshi 
denounced Ahmad Khan to Nawab Kaéim Khan, and at his instigation a 
thousand horse were despatched to Sakrawah with orders to eut off Ahmad 
Khan’s head. Having received word of their approach Ahmad Khan 
escaped to Rudain in Parganah Kampil, thirty miles north-west of Far- 
rukh4bad, where his father-in-law lived, and thence he made his way to 
Delhi, where he placed himself under the protection of Ghazi-ud-din Khan 
Firiz Jang. When the war with the Rohelas broke out, he managed with 
the connivance of Firiz Jang to escape from Delhi at midnight, without 
receiving the Emperor’s permission. We have already mentioned the part 
he took in the campaign. 
After the confiscation of the territory and the return of the Wazir to 
Delhi, Ahmad Khan lived in retirement at Farrukhabad in his house, known 
till a few years ago as the “ Kacha Kila’ ” (the mud fort), near the Bihisht 
Bagh. He could barely afford to keep two servants and a boy Ramzani, 
the son of an old servant of the house. Some months passed in this ways 
when one day in the month of Sawan (July) fifteen men from Mau, each 
* Amad-us Sa’dat, p. 46, fromline 2. Ahmad Khan was I believe at Farrukhaébad, 
so I have omitted his name from this story, the scene of which is Mau, 
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