60 W. Irvine—Zhe Bangash Nawdbs of Karrukhabdad. [No. 2, 
Kaimganj, was induced on receipt of a revenue-free grant of that village to 
make an advance of several thousand rupees. Some money is also said* to 
have been obtained by the plunder of a trader’s house in a town sixteen kos 
from Mau, where seventy bags of rupees and one bag of gold had just 
been received from Lakhnau. 
After some money had been collected in these various ways, the Nawab 
set up his standard in the Moti Bagh in Chaloli. His force soon amounted 
to six thousand men, which rumour magnified into fifty thousand. Here 
the Bibi Sahiba invested Ahmad Khan with a khilat as reigning Nawab, 
and the Pathans presented their offerings. Ghassi Kurmi was sent to 
attack the Thana of Shamsabdd, some five or six miles east of Mau. On 
the same day men, who were told off for the purpose, fell upon all Naval 
Rae’s thanas and overpowered his men. 
Nine days after the first rising Ahmad Khan brought out all his cash 
and placed it in a tent. He then proclaimed by beat of drum that he 
who could not support himself would be permitted, after his third fast, to 
take from this money, if a footman, one and a quarter anna, if a horseman, 
three annas. ‘To take more was prohibited ; and those who were well off took 
nothing. The army, now swollen to some twelve thousand horsemen and 
twelve thousand foot, marched from the Moti Bagh, and in five days reached 
the Jasmai gate at Farrukhabad, where they halted near the house of Miyan 
’Ali Shah. The rains of Bhadwan (July—August) were falling, and as 
protection against the continuous wet weather, some put up mats, some reed 
screens, some blankets, and some sheets. There were some even who had 
nothing and camped in the open. Proposals to attack the Bamtelas of 
Rashidpur, who had taken possession of .some of the vacant forts in the 
city, were brought forward but rejected by the Nawab. In his opinion 
there was no need of entangling themselves in such brambles before they 
had overcome Naval Rae. The march was resumed and the next halt was 
at Amanabad, parganah Bhojpur, about six miles south of Farrukhabad 
on the Cawnpir road. 
Battle of Khiidaganj and death of Naval Rae. 
A short time after the first rising, word had been brought to Naval 
Rae at Kannauj that the Pathans of Mau had risen and had surprised all his 
thinas. Naval Rae began by using strong language about stripping naked 
all those Pathan bakers (ndnpaz) and vegetable sellers (kunjra) including 
their women ; and he swore they should all be trodden to death under the 
* ’Amad-us-Sa’dat, p. 46. 
¢ Of the kind called Dalel-Khani, so made that, however strong the wind blows 
or however heavy the rain is, it will neither fall nor leak, 
