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and for six days open entertainment continued. A wet-nurse named ’Akila 
was appointed. In reply to the Nawab’s letter, the Emperor sent the fish 
dignity, with a title and a dress of honour, for the child. Ahmad Khan 
having erected a Guldlbér at the ’"Idgah, the child was placed in a palki 
and sent out to it in state to receive the Emperor’s gifts. The dress was 
put on the child, and he was invested with the title of Muzaffar Jang. 
Salutes were fired, gold and silver were given away, the nawbat was beaten, 
and with joyful demonstrations they returned slowly to the fort. When 
the child was four years, four months and four days old, he was taught the 
Bism-illah and sent to school. He was made over to a tutor (atdlik), and 
learned men were appointed to teach him. Ina few years he finished his 
education, and then he began to be instructed by his father in state affairs, 
First visit of Ghizi-ud.din Khan ’ Iméd-ul-mulk. 
During Ahmad Shah Durani’s fifth expedition, in 1170 H. (26th Sept. 
1756, 15th Sept. 1757), Ghazi-ud-din obtained his leave to raise a fine from 
the country between the Ganges and the Jamna. His object would appear 
to have been to force money from Shuja’-ud-daula, Nawab Wazir of Audh. 
Accompanied by two princes of the Delhi house, Hid4yat Bakhsh, son of 
"Alamgir II, and Mirza Babar, son of that Emperor’s brother, ’Azuddin, and 
the Durani troops under Jan Baz Khan, Ghazi-ud-din Khan proceeded to 
Farrukhabad. He had sent on his own troops under Mir Yahy4 Khan, 
son of Zakariya Khan. Ahmad Khan came out to meet his visitors and pre- 
sented appropriate presents. The army soon after crossed the Ganges and 
marched as far as the stream called the Garrah, on the boundary of the 
Audh territory. Shuja’-ud-daula, leaving Lakhnau, came out as far as Sandi 
and Pali, sixty-eight miles west of that city, in order to oppose the invaders. 
At length, by the good offices of Sa’dullah Khan Rohela, the matter was 
settled by a payment of five lakhs of rupees. On the 7th Shawél 1170 H. 
(25th June, 1757), Ghazi-ud-din Khan and the two princes re-entered Far- 
rukhabad. 
Meanwhile Ahmad Shah Durdani had retreated rather suddenly from 
Mathura to Delhi; and there, on the recommendation of the Emperor, who 
complained of ’Imad-ul-Mulk, the Durdni king appointed Najib Khan to 
be Amir-ul-Umra, and left him in charge of the capital. ’Imad-ul-Mulk 
immediately retaliated by creating Ahmad Khén Amfr-ul-Umrd, and by 
appointing him to the post of imperial Bakhshi.* Ghdzi-ud-din Khan then 
* It appears from the Térikh-i-Muzaffari that this appointment was renewed by 
Shah ’Alam. When, on the 5th Rajab 1175 H. (30th January, 1762), Shuja’-ud-daula 
was invested with the office of Wazir, Ahmad Khan was made fourth Bakhshi, 
