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W. Irvine— The JBangash Nawdhs of FarruJehahad. [No. 4, 
hammad Khan declined to break his pledge. Kaim Khan’s noble conduct 
at this trying juncture extorts words of praise from a most unfriendly cri¬ 
tic, the author of the “ Siyar-ul-Mutakharin’’. # 
The siege of Jaitpur had lasted three months and ten days, from the 
middle of May to the end of August, 1729, (Shawwal 1141 to Safar 1142); 
and with it ended Muhammad Khan’s connection with that part of the 
country. For the rest of his life he continued to press on the Emperor 
and his unwilling wazir his losses and his claims. But he never again 
exercised any authority in, or obtained any revenue from the jagirs still 
nominally his within the limits of Bundelkhand. Once only while in Mal¬ 
wa did he write to his quandom ally, Ilarde Sah, reminding him of an agree¬ 
ment made at Kharelaf to give up the government cannon, and to refrain 
from interference with the jagir malials. There was also an unfulfilled 
promise that Jagat Kaj’s agents would pay eight lakhs for Sahendah. Mu¬ 
hammad Khan reminds Harde Sah that the jagirs were worth fifty or sixty 
lakhs a year, that never for one moment would he forget his claims, the 
matter was one of opportunity, and with God’s help he would still enforce 
his rights. If Ilarde Sah, who said he was a friend, allowed the jagirs to be 
“ eaten” by others, he would become himself responsible. In the same 
letter, he expresses his satisfaction that Ilarde Sail had taken the parganahs 
of Auli,7 Kanar,§ Bampur,|| Kunch^f and others from Lachman Singh, 
lhe same course he hoped would be pursued in respect of Kalpi, ## Jalal- 
pur,ft Sahendah,7 + and Maudah.§§ All these orders were no more than 
idle threats which were never to be enforced. 
Muhammad Khan was now directed to proceed to court with no more 
than five hundred men, leaving Kaim Khan in charge of the rest of his 
* p. 465, line 4.—Grant Duff (p. 227), makes the Jaitpur affair follow the appoint¬ 
ment to Malwa, hut there can be little doubt from the local histories, confirmed by the 
“ Siyar-ul-Mutakharin” and the “ Tarikh-i-Muzaffari”, that Muhammad Khan received 
the Malwa appointment after he had been unsuccessful in Bundelkhand and had escaped 
from Jaitpur. I also doubt the correctness of the date 1732 in the Gaz. N. W. P. I, 
27. On p. 29, the year 1738 is given, which must be wrong: on p. 426, the date is 
1731. On p. 545, Dalel Khan’s death is given as having taken place in 1730 instead 
of 1720, 
f In the Hamirpur District, Parganah Jalalpur, about 34 miles S. of Hamirpur. 
t Query. Oral, in the Jalaun District. 
§ In the Jalaun District. See Gaz. I. 191. Now in Parganah Madhugarh. 
|| Query. In Parganah Madhugarh, Jalaun District. 
If In the Jalaun District. 
** On the Jamna in the Jalaun District. 
ff In the Hamirpur District. 
tt This is I fancy some place in the Hamirpur District and not the parganah of 
this name in Banda. 
§§ Hamirpur District. 
