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H. Blochmann — Koch Bilidr and Asiim. 
[No. 1, 
For the subsequent events we have only the Maasir i ’ Alamgiri to refer 
to, whose scanty notes are nevertheless of great value. I translate from 
the edition of this work in the Bibliotheca Indica. 
Page 73. “ On the first of Zi Hajjah, 1078 [2nd May, 1G68], Eahmat 
Banu, the daughter of the king of Asam was married to Prince Muhammad 
A’zam. Dowry, 180,000 Rupees.” 
It is not said whether this is the same girl that was taken by Mir 
Jumlah to Bengal. Her name implies that she had been converted to Islam. 
It was only Akbar and Jahangir that did not convert their Hindu prin- 
cesses. 
Page 97. “ Rajah Rdm Singh, who was a commander of 4000, 4000 
duaspah sihaspah troopers, was promoted to a command of 5000, and his son* 
* This Kishn Singh is called grandson (naltrah) of Ram Singh on p. 172 of the 
Marfsirr. It should he son. Ram Singh was the son of Jai Singh I, of Arnbar (Jaipur), 
with whose assistance Aurangzib had como to the throno. He died at Burkanpur on tho 
28th Muharram 1076, or 10th J uly, 1667. The ’A'lamgfrndinah (p. 1051) and the Madsir 
i Alamtjin (p. t»2) state that he died a natural death, and that his son Ram Singh was 
immediately made Rajah. Colonel Brooke ( Political History of Jcypore, p. 14) says, though 
he does not mention his authority, that Jai Singh was killed by his son Kirat Singh, 
whom Aurangzib had promised tho succession, and that the Emperor had engaged 
his services, because he thought Jai Singh too powerful a subject. “Tho fooling of 
the countiy, however, was too strong against the parricide, to allow such a succession 
to be carried out, and Kirat Singh was obliged to content himself with Kamah, now 
in the Bhurtpore territory, and which his descendants enjoy to this day ; but the par. 
ricidal act of their ancestor has for ever excluded them from any chance of sncceeding 
to the Jeypore throne.” Kirat Singh certainly was at Burk&npur, when Jai Singh died. 
He had in nearly every war served under his father, as, for instance, in the Mew 
disturbances, after which ho received Kamah Pahuid, and Koh-Mujahid, and was 
appointed Faujdar of Mewat. Shahjahdn, two years before being disposed, had made 
him a commander of 1000, and nftor the wars with Siwa, Aurangzib gave him a 
command of 2500. After the death of his father, he was made a commander of 3000, 
a promotion which docs not look like a reward for the great crime imputed to him. 
Kirat continued to serve in the Dak’hiu, and died in the beginning of 1081 (1673, A. D.). 
Jai Singh -was succeeded by his first-born son, Ram Singh. He had risen under 
Shahjahan to tho rank of commander of 3000. In the battle of Samogar, he was with 
Dard Shikoh, but joined soon aftorwards, like his father, the party of Aurungzib. He 
served under Muftnmmad Sultan, in tho pursuit of Shnja’, and took a part in the capture 
of Sulaiman Shikoh at Srinagar. Subsequently, he served under his father against 
Siwa; and when the Bhonsla and his son Samba presented themselves at Court, 
Aurangzib warned Ram Singh to have a sharp eye on them, and not to let them 
escape. But they fled (beginning of 1077), and Ram Singh fell into temporary disgrace, 
and lost his rank. The fact that Jai Singh died soon afterwards may be construed 
mto a suspicion against Kirat Singh. But Ram Singh was immediately restored, 
received the title of.Rajah, and a mamjab of 4000. In the same year (1078), he was 
ordered to Gawahatti in Asam. Ram Singh remained in Asam till tho middle of 1086 
(1675), his long stay being evidently a punishment. Ho died soon after. His son 
