276 W. Irvine —The Bang ash Nawabs of Farrukhabad. [No. 4, 
of Muhamdabad. In one of the bastions, still known as the “ Rae Sahib ka 
burj”, Har Parshad, kanungo, was built up alive. The old abandoned fort 
and the large lake just beneath it were owned and held, up to 1857, by the 
Nawab Ra’is for the time being. Muhamdabad is a smaller place than 
Kaimganj, but is still of some importance as the head-quarters of a Police 
division, and as the first halting-stage on the road from Farrukhabad to 
Mainpuri. 
Parmnagar, the chief town of parganah Parmnagar, on the left bank of 
the Ganges, in the Farrukhabad District, is sometimes called Muham- 
madganj, after Nawab Muhammad Khan, but the date of foundation is 
not known. 
The City of Farrukhabad. 
Nawab Muhammad Khan’s next undertaking was on a very different 
scale. He now set to work to found a city which, even in its present 
decaying state, counts as one of the principal places of Northern India. 
Residence at Mau must have been disagreeable to the new Nawab. The 
Pathans would not allow him to ride on an elephant through the streets, for 
fear of their women’s privacy being infringed. Afridis, Toyahs, and Khanz- 
adahs were numerous, but the Bangash were very few. If the Nawab ever 
did pass by, the Afridi boys threw clay pellets at him. To avoid this 
Muhammad Khan used to come out of the town, and mount his elephant 
near the tomb of Rahmat Khan, the martyr.* Often did he complain to 
the Bibi Sahiba of the way these Pathans tried his patience. 
An occasion for the acquisition of land for a site with the Emperor’s 
consent soon presented itself. Kasim Khan, Bangash, father of the Bibi 
Sahiba, first wife of Nawab Muhammad Khan, was a soldier of fortune 
who had risen to the command of some three hundred men, in the service of 
some Rajah of the South. In 1126 H. (6th Jan. 1714 to 27th Dec. 1714) 
Kasim Khan was on his way home to Mau with all his wealth. Near where 
the native infantry lines and the European barracks now stand, a place then 
covered with jungle, he was set on by a Thakur Rajah of the Bamtelaf tribe, 
whose villages were in the direction of Muhamdabad. Hundreds of men fol¬ 
lowed this Jtiajah in his plundering forays up to the bank of the Ganges and 
as far west as Mau. Kasim Khan and his party defended themselves bravely, 
but were at length overpowered and slain. He was buried where he fell. 
One ruined arch of his tomb still stands, in the middle of an enclosure sur¬ 
rounded with palm trees. A mango grove was planted to the west of the 
tomb, and the name of the village changed from Jamalpur to Kasim Bagh, 
under which name it was known in the revenue records till it was absorbed 
within the boundaries of the Fatehgarh cantonment. J 
* See note on Khanzadahs. f Note No. B. on the Bamtelas. f Kali Rae, p. 120. 
