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On the death of his patron abovenamed,* Bahadur ’Ali lost his ap¬ 
pointment and went to live in Farrukhabad, There for some years he 
taught the children at the house of Lala Daler Singh, Kayath Sribastab, 
“ Chaoni-wala j” and subsequently he was for some years in the service of 
Rae Chandi Parshad, Kayath Saksena, of muhalla Sadhwara. For two years 
he was with Mr. Martin, Indigo-planter, on Rs. 15 a month, as a jgarwdna- 
navis at the Shamshabad factory ; then for a year and a half he was em¬ 
ployed on Rs. 20 a month in the Joint-Magistrate’s Court at Sidhpura (now 
part of the Eta district). He was recommended by Munshi Zahur ’Ali 
’Abbasi Shekhpuri. When the Court was abolished,f he went for three 
years to Lakhnau, where he obtained various employments, as a writer at 
the Daryabad Thana, forty-three miles east of Lakhnau, as account- 
keeper to a merchant, and for part of the time as a teacher. On his 
return he again became a teacher at Farrukhabad. In .1839 when he 
wrote, he had been for some years living at the gate of Lala Oil Sukh 
Rae, the son, and Lala Shankar Parshad, the grandson of the deceased 
Diwan Debi Das. During this period, hundreds, old and young, had 
been his pupils ; but not one had done him any service, or turned out 
a real friend, or shown any affection, nor had even one been true to his 
word. He says he had no complaints to make nor any claims. Indeed he 
was accustomed not even to go down the street, where such ungrateful men 
dwelt. 
Bahadur ’Ali was married on the 7th Zi’lhajj 1220, H. (2Sth Feb. 
1806) to the daughter of Shekh Karm-ullah of Shamshabad, son of Asad- 
ullah Faruki. The family had a quantity of land and groves, granted by 
the Emperors, with yearly and daily allowances. In the disorders of the 
time, all these came unjustly into the possession of S. Tahavvar ’Ali Kabae. 
Bahadur ’Ali’s father-in-law, his uncle Siffat-ullah, and Shekh Khub-ullah, 
another relation, made great exertions to recover the property, but “ ba-sa- 
“ bab-na-insafi aur rudigi hdkimdn-i-Farrukhabad ke, apne dad aur hakk 
u ko na pahunche.” The younger branches of the family scattered to 
Talgram, Sakrawah, and Chibramau. 
Bahadur ’Ali had no issue ; but, as he says, this being a matter out of 
one’s power, he indulged in no regrets. He passed his days in reading, in 
recitations of poetry, in teaching, in reading aloud, and in the writing of 
books. And he failed not to give God thanks for his mercies ; 
“ FLarcha Sdlci-i-ma rekht, ’ain altdf ast .” 
He furnishes a list of thirteen works composed by him, besides short 
tales. The thirteenth is the History of Farrukhabad called ’Anwdn-i- 
* Rajah Jaswant Singh died on the 3rd Oct. 1815, being succeeded by his brother 
Pitam Singh, who died 11th November, 1835—Kali Rae, pp. 149, 150. 
f The Sirhpura Joint-Magistracy existed from 1816 to 1828, Gaz., N. W. P., IY. 
pp. 3, 4. 
