150 W. Irvine—Zhe Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhdbad. [No. 2, 
32. Shiurdjpur.—tn the Cawnpur district, the parganah next to the 
east of Bilhor, No. 30. 
33. Musenagar-Bhogni.—In the south of the Cawnpur district, along 
the left bank of the river Jamna. 
We are not told which of these thirty-three mahals formed the sixteen 
made over to the Mahrattas. The management would appear to have been 
left in the hands of Ahmad Khan, though it is doubtful whether this refers 
to all the mahals, or only to the Nawab’s half. We are told that, after 
deducting the costs of management and the pay of the troops, the balance 
was payable to Mulhar Rao. On the part of the Mahrattas two bankers 
were appointed, called by them Bamman, who were stationed one at Ka- 
nauj, the other at ’Aliganj in Parganah ’Azimnagar. The balance payable 
to the Mahrattas was made over to these two bankers, by whom the money 
was remitted to Mulhar Rao. Receipts for each year were then forwarded 
to the Nawab These payments were made for several years in succession. 
They ceased after the battle of Panipat, fought in January 1761, when the 
Mahrattas left Hindustan for a time, retired beyond the Jamna, and proceed- 
ed to the Dakhin. 
For some years the Mahrattas were occupied in domestic struggles 
and in warfare south of the Narbada. Advantage was taken of their with- 
drawal from Hindustan to recover all the parganahs which had fallen into 
their hands. During 1761-1763 Shuja’-ud-daula cleared the lower Duab of 
their posts and even advanced into Bandelkhand as far as Jhansi. Nawab 
Ahmad Khan, in the same way, took possession of many of the parganahs 
once held by his father, and no longer paid any tribute to the Mahrattas. 
Etawah, Phapond and Shikohabad, however, which had in 1761 been grant- 
ed to Hafiz Rahmat Khan by the Abdali monarch, were permanently 
severed from the Farrukhabad state. 
Except for a short time at Delhi in 1764, and at the battle of Korah 
in 1765, no Mahratta was seen in Northern India for more than eight 
years. In the end of 1769, however, the Peshwa’s army, amounting to fifty 
thousand men, crossed the Chambal. It was under the command of Visaji 
Kishn, Ram Chandar Ganesh, Mahadaji Sendhia and Tukaji Holkar. First 
they levied arrears of tribute from the Rajput princes. Next, after a vic- 
torious engagement fought close to Bhartpur, they obtained sixty-five lakhs 
of rupees from the Jat princes. Overtures were then made to them by 
Najib Khan, and it was agreed that their combined armies should march 
against Farrukhabad.* 
Early in the year 1184 H. (27th April, 1770—16th April, 1771),Najib 
Khan advanced from Delhi. Hafiz Rahmat Khan, whose son’s jdgir of 
* Grant Duff, pp. 349, 350. ; 
