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brother. The Nawab then asked his name, and he was told it was Daim. 
Ahmad Khan said he would adopt him and gave him the titles of Azim 
Jang Muhammad Daim Khan Bahadur, but he was popularly known as 
the Chhote Nawab. When he grew up he was married with great display 
to Muni Bibi, the daughter of Bakhshi Fakhr-ud-daula. 
In his childhood the Emperor Ahmad Shah had held him in his lap, 
fed him and with his own hand put on his shoulders miniature kettle-drums 
(nakkdrah and dawk?), thus conferring upon him the “ naubat.” 
In 1839 buildings still existed in the city, which had been built by this 
ehela. (1.) There was a masonry bridge (known still as “ Pul-pukhta’’), 
in the middle of the city, which had stood then the heavy traffic of 
seventy or eighty years. There were also (2) a masonry well with steps 
at the Mau gate, which is still in existence, although out of repair, and (8) a 
mansion within the fort, to the north of the Imémbara ; it was afterwards 
oceupied by Ahmad Yar Khan Naib (died 9th December, 1839); and in 
1839 was known by the name of Himmat Bahddur’s house. (4) Daim 
Khan’s Mahal-Sarde was at one side of the fort, in the low land, surroun- 
ded by the houses of poor people ; and near it was a private enclosed garden 
(Khana bégh). His descendants dismantled the buildings, sold the materials, 
and having consumed the proceeds, handed over the land to cultivators. (5) 
He also planted the bdgh near the Mau gate called the Chahar Bagh, after- 
wards in the possession of the Nawab Rais, and (6) he planted a bagh and 
made a masonry well with four runs near the Madar Darwaza, traces of 
which existed in 1839. (7.) There is a Daimganj adjoining the town of 
Chibramau, which he established and named it after himself. 
So long as the parganah belonged to the Farrukhabad Nawab, Daim 
Khan was the nominal manager of Parganah Shahpur-Akbarpur (now in the 
Cawnpur district). The jagir of Pukhrayan in that parganah was continued 
to him by Miydén Almas ’Ali Khan, the Audh ’Amil, and it remained with 
the family till it was sold by auction in 1845, in execution of a decree of the 
Civil court. ; 
Daim Khan himself paid no attention to business, he left all such work 
to kérindas who embezzled the money. Nawab Daim Khan would then 
be forced to pay out of his pocket, or would beg Ahmad Khan to remit the 
amount, His whole time was spent in taking his ease, in hunting with 
falcons or bajri (a kind of hawk), in shooting tigers, in chita hunting, in 
wrestling or gymnastics, in listening to singing or looking on at dancing. 
Nawab Ahmad Khan had given him lakhs of rupees or goods, by way of 
present, but he squandered it all in his pleasures. By Muni Bibi he had_ 
three sons: (1) Daler ’Ali Khan, entitled Fath Jang, (2) Rustam ’Ali 
Khan, (8) Ahmad ’Ali Khan. Daler ’Ali Khan had a son, Madar Khan, 
who turned fakir and took the name of Mahndi Shah. Rustam ’Ali Khan 
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