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W. Irvine —The Bangash Nawabs of Farrukhabad. [No. 4, 
Girdhar Bahadur, the Imperial Governor of Malwa, and for two seasons 
(1725—1726), had obtained plunder and contributions.* * * § Muhammad 
Khan was appointed to the command of five thousand men, with two lakhs 
of rupees a month for their pay. He waited at Akbarabad to receive the 
money and was then told to go on to Gwaliar, where he entertained nearly 
ten thousand horsemen, and lay there idle for seven months. 
On his way hack from the above expedition, Muhammad Khan was 
asked by Khan Dauran Khan, who then held in jagir parganahs Bhongamf 
and Talgram,J to send two thousand men to aid Mahtya Sadanand in 
reducing to submission Jaswant Singh, zamindar of Mainpuri. The tradi¬ 
tional story is, that the Chauhan Rajah, Dalip Singh, neglected to pay his 
respects to the Nawab, and Bhiire Khan with five hundred horse was sent to 
bring him. When the Rajah came before the Nawab, he delayed in making 
his salam, and Bhure Khan bent his neck down with his hand. The Rajah 
freeing himself drew his sword. Then the Nawab sent an arrow at him 
and hit him in the head so that he died on the spot. His son, Jaswant 
Singh, was appointed his successor and the Nawab resumed his road to Far¬ 
rukhabad. § 
Bundelkhand Affairs. 
We have already seen,|| that the jagirs given to Muhammad Khan in 
the reign of Farrukhsiyar and the early part of that of Muhammad Shah, lay 
mostly in Bundelkhand. Farrukhsiyar (1713—1719) granted him the par¬ 
ganahs of Sehand^[ and Maudah** in jagir : to the charge of these Daler 
Khan, chela was appointed. In the first year of Muhammad Shah’s reign 
(Feb. 1719—Feb. 1720) a tankhwah was granted on Kalpi,ff Iriclih, 
and other places in Bundelkhand. 
In the same year, 1719—1720, it was reported that the Bundelas had 
plundered Kalpi, had killed Pir ’Ali Khan, Muhammad Khan’s ’Amil, and 
his son. They seized the women and children of the respectable Muham¬ 
madans, and knocked down their houses, mosques and tombs. Nawab Bur- 
han-ul Mulk then asked that the Mughuls might be sent against the 
* Grant Duff, 218, Bombay reprint, 1873. 
f In the Mainpuri District. 
X In tbe Farrukhabad District. 
§ Gaz. IV. 550, 552. Jaswant Singh’s accession took place in 1783 S. = 1726 
A. D. 
|| P. 274. 
If Twelve miles south of Banda. 
** In tbe Hamirpur District. 
ft On the Jamna, in the Jalaun District. 
In the Jhansi District. 
