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army. He replied that he had got as far as Jalalpur on his way home, hut 
was forced to stop owing to the disturbances raised by the troops, to whom 
more than one hr or of rupees was due. Before, while the fighting was 
going on, no other thought could find place, night and day they were occu¬ 
pied with plans of resistance. But from the day of arrival at Kharela* 
and Moth and the junction with Kaim Khan, they had resorted to every 
kind of violence in demanding their pay, and in requiring food for the time 
being. Their demands were made morning, noon and night, so that the 
Nawab could neither eat nor sleep. He was driven to his wit’s end, and 
death was. better than such a life. He begged, therefore, that to content 
them, a portion of those two lakhs a month might be paid, which had been 
promised to him before he crossed the Jamna ; or that to silence them a deed 
for Allahabad might be granted, with assignment (tanhhwah) on the mahals 
recovered from the enemy in Bundelkhand, and a sanad for the Sarkar of 
Ghoraf in the name of Kaim Khan, from the year of the campaign against 
Sayyad ’Abdullah Khan (1721), when a petition, with order granting this 
Sarkar, was despatched to Haler Khan. He also demanded a sanad in 
favour of another son, Akbar Khan, for the faujddri of Parganah Irichh. 
We next find the Nawab reporting that the whole of the men had crossed 
the Betwah, they would speedily reaeh Kalpi, and commence to cross the 
Jamna, there being sixteen boats, large and small. Again Muhammad Khan 
reiterates his complaints. He accuses the courtiers of making him out a 
traitor and a rebel. Notwithstanding all the services he had done, the two 
lakhs a month had not been paid. Kaim Khan had recently raised a great 
army ; His Majesty could not have reflected where the money was to come 
from. Did he think Kaim Khan knew alchemy, or could unearth hidden 
treasure P Had any one else raised an army at such a juncture, he would 
have been bountifully rewarded. Now the Nawab’s companions-in-arms 
received word that their tanhhwdhs, granted in the Emperor Farrukhsiyar’s 
time, had been resumed. This was most unjust. 
If the Emperor should deign to redouble his ancient favours, then 
Muhammad Khan could continue his service. If not, he would draw on 
the garment of resignation and withdraw from public life, or if desired 
would proceed on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He himself was much cast down, 
but what he writes is for the satisfaction of his troops, to whom all his 
letters were shown. Although their pay was so greatly in arrears they 
would not, out of respect to his fellow clanship, prevent his journey to 
court. He felt much annoyed at the report spread that he did not intend 
to present himself, and he invoked the wrath of God on the men who made 
such unfounded statements. 
* Parganah Jalalpur, IIamirpur District. 
t See article Ghora in Elliot’s Supp. Glossary, p. 391. 
