128 W. Irvine—TZhe Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhdbdd. [No. 2, 
told him to take it. Najib Khan said, “Steel should not be received for 
nothing ;” so he sent for a paisa (copper coin) and, putting it on both hands, 
offered it with mock respect to Nawab Ahmad Khan. The Nawab taking 
it up said, “It is right and proper that you should offer me a nazar, for 
“you were once in my father’s service.” This was true, for Najib Khin 
began life as a Jama’dar on five rupees a month under Muhammad Khan 
Ghazanfar Jang and then entered the service of the elder Ghazi-ud-din 
Khan on seven rupees a month. The first interview was accorded to Nawab 
Ahmad Khan, and by special permission he was allowed to take in with 
him three persons to hold him up. They were Fakhr-ul-daula Bakhshi, 
Mibrbian Khan Diwadn and Daim Khan. Shah Wali Khan, the Wazir, 
being of the same clan, had recommended Ahmad Khan, and in this way 
he obtained the first entry. When all the other amérs were admitted, the 
king gave Ahmad Khan the order to sit down. 
Visitors to Farrukhabdad. 
During the latter part of Ahmad Khan’s life, from 1759 to 1771, there 
were a number of distinguished visitors to Farrukhabad. Many of the Delhi 
nobles sought shelter there, on the breakinz up of the imperial court and the 
occupation of the capital by the Mahrattas. When ’Abdullah Khan, son of 
?Ali Muhamnad Khan, Rohela, attempted to assassinate Hafiz Rahmat Khan, 
it was to Farrukhabad that he fled, and it was through Ahmad Khan’s inter- 
cession that he obtained pardon, and the parganah of Aujhani was granted for 
his subsistence.* And, owing to the grant of the parganahs of Shikohabad, 
Phaphond and Itawah, made to the Rohelas by Ahmad Shah on his departure 
from India, Hafiz Rahmat Khan in 1762 passed through Farrukhabad with 
his son, on his way to visit his new territory.t Again, after the battle of Bak- 
sar on Oct. 28rd, 1764, Shuja’-ud-daula came for a time to Farrukhabad. 
Ahmad Khan could at one time boast of having two ex-Wazirs of the 
Empire encamped at opposite gates of his city—’Imad-ul-Mulk at one and 
Shuja’-ud-daula at the other gate. 
The most important group of visitors, however, was composed of Ghazi- 
ud-din Khan ’Im4d-ul-Mulk, his relations and friends, who for many years 
found an asylum with, and lived upon the bounty of, Nawab Ahmad Khan. 
Of each of these we proceed to give such details as are known, 
1. Ghazi-ud-din ’ Imdd-ul-Muthk. 
Mir Shahab-ud-din was the son of Mir Muhammad Shah, entitled 
Ghazi-ud-din Khan Firtiz Jang, eldest son of the celebrated Nizim-ul- 
Mulk Asaf Jah, His mother was a daughter of the well known Wazir, 
* Life of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, pp. 46, 47. 
+ Life of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, pp. 67, 77, 79. 
