1879.] _ W. Irvine—The Bangash Nawébs of Furrukhébdd. 137 
rattas, after the great defeat at Panipat in January 1761. The Mahrattas 
withdrew from the Duab, and Ahmad Khan took possession of all the pars 
ganahs ever held by his family, and perhaps of some to which he had no 
elaim. On the other hand, Shuja’-ud-daula wished to maintain him within 
the limits fixed by the treaty of 1752 and asserted his own right to all the. 
recovered territory. 
Another motive, whieh acted strongly on Shuja’-ud-daula, was the shel- 
ter given to Umrao Gir Gusdin. Umrdo Gir had fled from Lakhnau with 
Hatya, a favourite dancing girl of the Naw4b’s, and came to Farrukhabad 
with his twelve thousand fighting Nagds.* He encamped in a bdgh near 
the city, and was introduced through Fakhr-ud-daula, Bakhshi. The Nawab 
determined to retain the Gusain in his service, although his advisers tried 
to deter him, pointing out that the Gusdin’s contingent was too 
powerful, nor had they money to pay him. Ahmad Khan said he could not 
turn away a supplicant, a thing he had never done. Umrao Gir was sent 
to Kasganj to Roshan Khan, chela, (known as Miyan sorpasd then ’Amil- 
of the eight and a half mahals. 
Himmat Bahadur wrote to his brother, remonstrating with him for 
leaving the master who had brought them up and joining a ruler whose 
* Anup Gir Himmat Bahdédur and his younger brother, Umrao Gir, were chelas of 
the Rajah Indar Gir (or Gaj Indar Gir) whom we met before at the siege of Allahé- 
bad (p. 79) and elsewhere. The original abode of this Gusd4in was in the jungle 
near Moth, in Bundelkhand, thirty-two miles from Jhansi. About 1744-5 he acquired 
- many villages in that Parganah (Gaz. I, 550). In 1760 he entered Safdar Jang’s 
service, and in 1752 he was killed near Delhi. Himmat Bahadur (Anip Gir) died in 
1804 at the age of seventy, when Narindar Gir, his son by Fakhr-un-Nissa Begam of 
Lakhnau, was stilla minor. By article 3 of the Agreement, dated the 4th September, 
1803, made with Himmat Bahadur, it appears that Rajah Umrao Gir, his brother, was 
then in confinement at Lakhnau, on account of a conspiracy against the Nawab Wazit’s 
government.—Aitchison, II, 225, ed. 1876. By a grant, dated the 1st March, 1806, the 
assignments in Bundelkhand were exchanged for a territory in the Cawnpur district, 
named Rasdhan, about forty-three miles south-west of Cawnpur city, in Parganah 
Sikandrah, which lies in the south-west corner of the district between the Jamna 
and the Sengar. This estate yielded a revenue of Rs. 1,357,000 a year. The families 
of Umrao Gir and Kanchan Gir also received pensions (Gaz. I. 41.) On Narindar Gir’s 
death in 1840, the estate was sequestrated in payment of debts by order of the 12th 
May, 1841. The debts had barely been cleared off when the mutiny of 1857 broke 
out. Jai Indar Gir (son by Lalan Begam) and Padam Indar Gir (son by Riba Begam) 
| became rebels, and two-thirds of the parganah was confiscated. The two brothers 
| were given an allowance of Rs. 100 a month. Jai Indar Gir died in June or July 
| 1876; the other brother survives. One-third of the income, amounting to Rs. 28,780 
a year, is paid to the widow of Narindar Gir, known as the Raj Rani, who for the las 
| thirty years has: lived in the city of Cawnpur. 
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