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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
Great, who invaded the kingdom of Bahadoor 
Kahn, the last monarch of the Farooklii dynasty in 
Kandeish. 
Bahadoor Kahn was a weak and vicious prince, 
without a redeeming quality to be discovered in his 
character. In three short years after his succession 
to a wealthy and powerful kingdom, the reins of 
government were shaken from his hand, and the 
glory of the kings of Kandeish was darkened for 
ever. Immediately upon his accession, he gave him- 
self up to the pleasures and excesses of the seraglio ; 
and, diverting himself with minstrels and dancers, 
he either neglected altogether the affairs of the state, 
or amused his evil propensities by adopting all such 
measures as would tend to loosen the existing re- 
straints upon vice and profligacy among his subjects. 
So that, in a day, as it were, all morality and social 
order appeared to have vanished from the kingdom. 
The first of Bahadoor Kahn’s public misfortunes, 
and one which materially hastened his downfal, 
arose from the enmity of Prince Danael Mirza, which 
he incurred by declining to send the customary con- 
gratulations, on his accession to the command of the 
forces in the Dekkan. Two years subsequently to 
this impolitic and senseless conduct, the emperor 
Akbur arrived at Mandao, with the avowed object 
of invading the unsubdued provinces of the Dek- 
kan ; when Bahadoor Kahn, instead of following the 
wise example of his father by relying upon the honour 
