1879.] W. Irvine—The Bangash Nawdbs of Farrukhabad. 77 
mul Khan, and other leaders with their respective contingents to Shahabad 
and Khairabad, of which parganahs they took quiet possession. The death 
and defeat of Naval Rae had thrown the greater part of the Allahabad 
Subah into confusion; Rap Singh Khichar, who held parganah Karali (now 
in the Allahabad district), Sumer Singh, son of Hindu Singh Chandela, and 
Ganshém Singh Raghbansi, all old friends of the Pathans, entered into a 
league with the Mahrattas, and as they had done the year before, wished to 
call them across the river. 
By the month of Zil-ka’d (Sept.—Oct. 1750), the Pathans had put a 
thana in Malihabad, 15 miles west of Lakhnau, had raised a disturbance in 
Sandi, (in the Hardoi district) had invested Amethi (in the Sultanpur dis- 
trict), and with a large force were threatening Dalmau, on the Ganges, and 
Rae Bareli itself. 
It is reported that after the victory Nawab Ahmad Khan used often 
to say to the Bibi Sahiba—“ God the Almighty has granted me a double 
“triumph, for I have not only defeated ’Abd-ul-Manstr Khan, but I am rid 
“of Rustam Khan Afridi, who had a claim to half my territory.” The 
Nawab referred to the compact made before the attack on Naval Rde, by 
which Rustam Khan had stipulated for half the mawabi in return for the 
money then advanced. 
Siege of Allahabad Fort. 
(September, 1750—April, 1751.) 
Nawab Ahmad Khan after having made all his arrangements went in 
person to Kannauj. Hearing of his approach Nawab Baké-ullah Khan, 
Khan ’Alam, Amir Khani* and Rae Partap Narayan, officers in the Wazir’s 
* He was the son of Marahmat Khan, son of Amir Khin ’Alamgiri, his uncle be- 
ing the well known Amir Khan ’Umdat-ul-Mulk, whom we mentioned at p. 338, Vol. 
XLVI, 1878. 
+ The family tree of this family is given thus in the Amdd us-Sa’dat, p. 56. 
copying from the Hadihat-ul-Akdlim. 
Atma Rim (born near Lahor, Diwan to Sa’dat 
Khatri, Khan when Faujdar of Hindaun 
| and Bayand). 
co 
= 
| | | 
Har Nardyan Rajah Ram Narayan Partap Nardyan 
(Wakil of Safdar Diwan. alias Partap Singh 
Jang at Delhi). (mostly employed 
; in the Subahs). 
| 
[ | c Al 
Maharajah Shiu Jagat Rajah Rae Shiu Saran 
~ Lachmi Narayan Narayan, Nérayan. Maha Narayan WHarde (adopted son). 
(Wakil at Delhi). (Diwan to Na- Narayan. 
wab Shuja’ud- 
daula). 
