29G W. Irvine —The Bcingctsh JTawdhs of FarruJcJiabad. [No, 4, 
ing his troops. He then lingered in Jalalpur,* and it was only on getting 
sharp orders to make over Auli to Rao Ram Chand,t that he advanced and 
cleared the parganah of Rath. 
Sardar Khan was also sent with Kunwar Pancham Singh, to force Rao 
Ram Chand’s army to retire from the investment of the forts and thanas 
in the country of Rajah Pirthi Singh. J With the assistance of the Bha- 
dauriya forces, these orders were executed. § 
We have already seen that Tarahwan fell first before Kaim Khan in 
Jamadi I, 1140, (December 1727). He then cleared the plain country and 
the hills in the east of Bundelkhand ; and, leaving Sayyad ’Arif Ali Khan 
in charge, aided by Sadu a zamindar, he rejoined his father. Hardly had he 
done so, when word came that at the instigation of the sons and grandsons 
of Chattarsal, the zamindar of Bargarh|| and Hindu Singh, with a force of 
five thousand horse and ten thousand foot, had broken into revolt. Kaim 
Khan was at once sent back with five thousand horse and five thousand 
foot. When he came within twelve /cos of Tarahwan, his spies informed 
him that the enemy had already regained the first outwork of the fort. 
On the 1st Rabi I, of the 10th year=1141 H. (24th Sep., 1728), while 
Muhammad Khan was following up the Bundelas in the hills of Ajhnar 
and was besieging Jaitpur, his son Kaim Khan commenced his attack, for 
the second time, on Tarahwan. On this occasion the outer fort only was 
taken. It was not till more than a month afterwards, on the 9th Rabi II, 
of the 11th year=1141 H. (1st November, 1728), that the final assault was 
given. A mine had been driven under one of the bastions and filled with 
gunpowder. The moment the explosion occurred the assault took place. 
About six hundred of the assailants were slain and a still larger number of 
the besieged. The rest gave way and fled towards Tarhat^" pursued by the 
Muhammadans who, after the victory, occupied the fortress of Tarahwan. 
Kaim Khan followed up this success and, after five or six defeats in 
the field, so closely pressed his opponent at Bargarh that he was glad to 
submit. These operations must have occupied some months, for although 
ordered to rejoin his father at once, Kaim Khan was still absent when the 
Malirattas suddenly appeared on the 12th March, 1729, to turn Muhammad 
Khan’s course of victory into defeat. 
While Jaitpur was invested, Muhammad Khan moved onwards into 
the hills, and kept up constant skirmishes against the enemy under Chattar- 
* Hamirpur District about 24 miles N. E. of Rath. 
t Rajah of Datiya ? 
1 Of Sahendah ? 
§ The Bhadauriya family history will be noticed hereafter. 
|| About 34 miles east of Tarahwan, near the Jahbalpur line. 
H Barhat ? 
