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from the Emperor’s own pandan, and sat down on the spot where he had 
hitherto stood. Samsam-ud-daula Khan Dauran Khan turned to him 
anxiously, and exclaimed, “Nawab Ghazanfar Jang ! what does this mean ?” 
Muhammad Khan replied, “ While I was a servant I stood, from this day I 
“ leave the Emperor’s service, why then should I stand any longer ?” The 
Emperor tried to pacify him, but all efforts were unavailing, and the same 
day he gave orders to pay off his troops. A quarrel then occurred between 
the Nawab and Ruh-ul-Amin Khan about a balance of one lakh of rupees 
due by the latter, which he refused to refund. The Jcdzi thus lost his 
protector, and the Nawab departed for Farrukhabad. 
From a passage in the Inshd-i-Ydr Muhammad * it would seem 
that at this period Akbar Khan, the Nawab’s son, acted as his deputy at 
Allahabad. In the course of a long account of the principal events of his 
life, Yar Muhammad speaks of leaving Bhagwant Rae and coming with 
Naval Singh to attack some fort. Having failed in their object, they 
went to Allahabad. Naval Singh entered Akbar Khan’s service, while Yar 
Muhammad, dismissing his followers, took refuge with a holy man named 
Khubullah. Akbar Khan sent a mace-bearer for him, but he refused to go, as 
on that day he had lost a child nine months old. A disturbance took place, 
and Akbar Khan attempted to use force. The Pathans refused, however, 
to attack the house of a holy man. The reason of Akbar Khan’s interfer¬ 
ing seems to have been, that Sa’dat Khan Burhan-ul Mulk had sent a 
request for Y r ar Muhammad’s arrest as a deserter. Akbar Khan did not 
succeed in arresting him, and a week after a sanad came from Sarbuland 
Khan, the new Subakdar, appointing Roshan Khan Turahi to be his deputy. 
The Campaign in Mdlwd. 
On reaching Delhi in the latter part of 1729, Muhammad Khan seems 
to have entered into prolonged negotiations. He could not succeed, how¬ 
ever, in retaining Allahabad, which was an easily held country (be-Tcliar ), 
but had to content himself with appointment to the Subah of Malwa, which 
had been ravaged by the Mahrattas, and was liable at any moment to be 
.re-invaded. The sanad for Malwa is dated the 17th Rabi I. of the 12th 
year (1143 H. = 19th Sept. 1730), and is “ ba-mashrict, ba dastur-i- 
mcCmul , hasb-ul-zimman .” 
Roshan-ud-daula it was, through whom the appointment was obtain¬ 
ed,f and one lakh of rupees of the money advanced from the treasury was 
left in his hands. Of this sum two thousand rupees were paid as a dou¬ 
ceur to the employes of the elephant stables, to facilitate the delivery of 
four elephants. The balance appears to have been appropriated by Roshan- 
* p. 168, Calcutta, 1246 H.—1830-1. 
f See as to his influence and his cupidity, Seir-Mutaqharin I, 264, 274. He died 
14th Zi’l-haj 1148 II., do. p. 294. 
