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W. Ir vine— The Tang ash Nawdhs of Farrufchabad. [No. 4, 
Again, in acknowledging a fresli order to attend court, Muhammad 
Khan goes over the above points once more. The Jamna was crossed on 
the return march apparently on the 11th Babi’ I. 1142, (23rd Sept., 1729). 
The river was in flood but the men were to cross on boats. His chief lead¬ 
ers were unprovided with horses, having just come out of a long campaign, 
and the strings of horses for sale not having yet arrived, they had not beeu 
able to mount themselves. On his arrival at court Muhammad Khan 
hoped that Boshan-ud-daula^ would become security for him, and procure 
for him sanads in Kaim Khan’s favour for the zamindari and faujdari of 
Sarkar Ghora. Pir ’Ali Khan, his agent at court, still held the. order by 
which His Majesty had before granted them to Daler Khan. Nor had any 
reply to his request for the faujdari of Irichh been forwarded. 
Muhammad Khan seems at length to have reached Court. The next 
eleven months (Oct. 1729—Sept. 1730), we can presume were spent in 
urgent repetition of the oft-told story of his wrongs. The Siyar-ul 3Lu- 
takharin states! that his removal from the Allahabad Subah was caused 
by his failure in Bundelkhand. This does not seem quite correct for, if 
the Tab sirat-un-Nazir in is to be trusted, the appointment to Allahabad 
was not conferred on Sarbuland Khan, Mubariz-ul Mulk, till 1144 IT. 
(July 1731—June 1732). Before this Muhammad Khan had been restor¬ 
ed to favour, and his sanad for the Nizamat of Malwa is dated the 17th 
Babi I. of the 12th year (1143 H. = 19th Sept. 1730). The removal from 
Allahabad in 1144 H. is, therefore, more probably to be attributed to some 
ill-feeling raised by Muhammad Khan’s dealings in Malwa, where he was 
then present. 
A characteristic anecdote, relating to this period, is told in the Shard if- 
i-T7smctni.% When Muhammad Khan reached Kanauj on his return from 
Bundelkhand, Buh-ul-Amin Khan Bilgrami, one of the leaders who had 
enlisted under Kaim Khan’s standard, introduced to the Nawab the hazi 
of Bilgram, Muhammad Ahsan, whose jdgirs had recently been resumed by 
Burhan-ul-Mulk. The Nawab promised to use his good offices with the 
Emperor ; and the Jcazi followed him to Delhi. The empire was then in 
all its glory, and the saying was quite true that the Emperor of Hindustan 
lived like a God upon earth. 
On his arrival at Delhi, Muhammad Khan at his first audience demand¬ 
ed the Subah of Allahabad; but the Emperor made the excuse that to give 
it then was not convenient. Immediately on hearing this answer, Nawab 
Muhammad Khan stretching forth his hand took two-folded pan leaves 
* Bakhshi-ul Mamalik, Roshan-ud-Daula, Zafar Khan Bahadur, Rustam Jang, 
t p. 465. 
x The Shardif-i- Usman i was written in 1188 II. by Ghulam Hasan, Sadlkl, ul- 
Farshuri, Bilgrami, poetically styled Samin. 
