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wall was a ditch, with sloped and levelled sides, fifteen yards wide and thirty 
feet deep. So long as Muhammad Khan lived, this ditch was cleaned every 
day, and the gates were kept in good order. 
Round the fort were the houses of the chelas who were on duty day and 
night. Many groves were planted, especially noteworthy were the Naulakha 
and Bihar Baghs beneath the fort, which did not contain any mango trees, 
but consisted entirely of guava, her, custard-apple and orange .trees. The 
Nawab’s sons and chelas had orders to plant groves outside the city 
wherever they pleased. The soil is very favourable to the mango and it 
comes to great perfection; the water-melons are also very large and sweet 
and plentiful. 
Two entire villages, Bhikampura and Deothan, were included within 
the walls, besides portions of other villages. It was intended that each 
trade should occupy a separate bazar, hence we have the quarters named 
after trades such as Kasarhatta (braziers), Pasarhatta (druggists), Sarafa 
(money-changers), Lohai (iron-mongers), Nunhai (salt-dealers), Khandhai 
(sugar-merchants), and so forth. Other quarters were set aside for particu¬ 
lar castes, such as Khatrana (for the Khatris), Mochiana (for shoe-makers), 
Koliana (for Hindu weavers), Sadhwara (for Sadhs), Bamanpuri (for Brah¬ 
mans), Julahpura (for Mussulman weavers), Rastogi muhalla, Agarwal 
muhalla, Kaghazi muhalla (for paper-makers), Mahajanpura, Bangashpu- 
ra, Khatakpura, Sayyadpura, and so on. This arrangement has been upset 
in more recent times, and the castes have become more or less mixed. Still 
it is observed to some extent, for I doubt if a single Sadli lives outside the 
Sadhwara, and its offshoot the Sahibganj muhalla. 
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Events from 1719 to 1726. 
During the reign of Farrukhsiyar, Nawab Muhammad Khan would 
appear to have attended Court seldom, being occupied with the founding of 
Farrukhahad. Meanwhile Delhi had been the scene of much intrigue. 
On the 9th Rabi II, 1131 H. (18th Feb. 1719) the Sayyad brothers,* 
’Abdullah Khan and Husain ’Ali Khan, had deposed and imprisoned the 
Emperor Farrukhsiyar, After the short reigns of two boys successively 
raised to the throne, Abul Fath Nasir-uddin, entitled Muhammad Shah, suc¬ 
ceeded on the 15th Zi’l Iva’d, 1131 H.f (18th Sept. 1719), his reign counting, 
however, from the deposition of Farrukhsiyar. After intrigues against the 
power of the Sayyads, with which we need not concern ourselves here, it 
was agreed that Husain ’Ali Khan, accompanied by the Emperor, should 
march to reduce the revolted provinces of the Dakhin. The march of the 
Sayyad began at the end of Shawwa4 (end of August 1720). On the 9th 
Zi’l Ka’d, 1132 H. (3rd Sept. 1720), the Emperor made a first march from 
* Siyar-ul Mutakharin 418 (Lakhnau Edition), f S-ul-M 422, j; S-ul-M. 433. 
