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The survivors o£ Kasim Khan’s party arrived the next morning at Mau. 
To console his wife, Muhammad Khan set out for Delhi. There he was 
graciously received by the Emperor Farrukhsiyar who, by way of price for 
her father’s blood, made over to the Bibi Sahiba the whole fifty-two of the 
Bamtela villages. Muhammad Khan received a dress of honour, and they 
say he was made Nazim of Gwaliyar : the truth of this latter statement 
is, however, extremely doubtful. The Emperor expressed a wish that a city 
called after his name* should be founded on the spot where Kasim Khan 
was killed, and that the fifty-two Bamtela villages should be included within 
its walls. 
No better site could have been selected than that chosen for his city 
by Muhammad Khan. The strip of land along the right bank of the Gan¬ 
ges from Kampil to Kanauj is one of the most thickly-peopled and the 
most fertile in Northern India. There is abundance of water, for from the 
firmness of the subsoil, wells can be dug at pleasure ; and the native saying 
is true without exaggeration, that in Farrukhabad there is a w T ell in every 
house. They say that before the city was founded the Nawab once came 
by chance to the high mound, the site of a Dhi or abandoned village, where 
the city fort now stands. The Ganges then flowed much nearer than it 
does now, and a delightful view extended on all sides to a distance of several 
miles. The Nawab took a liking to the place, and said that a dwelling- 
house there would be very pleasant. In the tarai or low land the Pathans 
shot many alligators and crocodiles (inagar and goli). There were quanti¬ 
ties of wild geese and other game ; they even say that the high grass and 
reeds concealed tigers, which sometimes devoured men.f 
In truth, there is to this day no pleasanter view in the whole of the 
plains of Upper India than that obtained at all seasons from the fort of 
Farrukhabad. Passing the tiled bungalow used for the MunsifE’s Court¬ 
house and the square unshapely mass of the tahsil building, we wend our 
way up to the pretty garden at the summit. There we pause a moment 
to take our breath, and admire the grandiose outline of Mr. C. R. Lindsay’s 
Town Hall. As we turn with our face to the north, our gaze first falls on 
the ruins of the once magnificent pleasure-house of the Nawab in the Paen 
Bagh ; further on, the eye rests delighted on the slender minarets of the 
Karbala ; beyond stretches all that remains of the Nawab’s hunting-ground 
or Ramna, still dotted here and there with trees ; and closing in the horizon 
* Farrukhabad was sometimes styled Ahmadnagar Farrukhabad, as in the coin 
of Shahjahan II. struck there in 1174, H. (Proc. B. A. S., July, 1876, p. 138,) and in 
the Persian accounts of 1209 and 1210, Fusli (1801-1802) preserved in the Collector’s 
office. It got the second name, I suppose, in Ahmad Khan’s time (1750-1771). 
f This is really not so improbable as it sounds to us now, for so late as 1803 
tigers were shot along the Ganges below Kanauj. See Major Thorn’s “ Memoir of 
the War in India.” 
