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W. Irvine —The Ban(jai;h Nawahs of Farrulchdbad. [No. 4, 
Muhammad Khan, # and the other chief soldiers of Ujain, Narwar and 
Sironj, reported that they had ready more than twenty thousand men. 
They were ordered to join with them at Narwarf and Kalabagh. J If 
they had been sent for to Gwaliar, two months advances would have been 
asked for, and the whole of the grant from the Imperial Treasury exhausted 
before leaving Gwaliar. Muhammad Khan endeavoured to make the 
money last as far as Ujain, that is for the succeeding two months. 
At length on the 6th Jamadi I. 1143 H (6th November, 1730), the 
army was set in motion, and leaving Akbarabad it encamped at Jajau on the 
Ban or Utangan river, nineteen miles south of that city. The next morn¬ 
ing, the 7th (7th Nov. 1730), a march was made and the army stopped at 
a short distance from Dholpur. Mukim Khan, Daud Khan and Sa’dat 
Khan with the artillery crossed at once. On the 8th, the crossing of the 
Chambal had not been effected by the rest of the army, the river not being 
then fordable, while the boats were few and small. On the 9th, Muham¬ 
mad Khan crossed and the camp followed. Thence with one night between 
they reached Gwaliar. 
From Gwaliar Muhammad Khan reiterated his request for the fauj- 
dari of that place. Without such a hold over them no hearty aid could be 
hoped for from the Rajahs and others ordered to serve under him. It was 
promised to him before he left Delhi, but having got rid of him from Court, 
the ministers paid no heed to his remonstrances. Chattar Singh of Shiu- 
puri§ and Kalaras|| learning that the sanad for Gwaliar had not arrived, 
collected men and began fighting Khande Ram whom he had ejected from 
the fort of Bajaur.^f The mercenaries had thus found service near their 
homes and went to join the combatants. If once these Rajahs and the 
mercenaries knew that Muhammad Khan had been made faujdar of Gwa¬ 
liar, they would no longer seek service except under the government of 
their country. 
Rajah Udait Singh of Orchha, his son Kunwar Bahadur, Rao Ram 
Chand of Datiya, Chattar Singh of Shiupuri and Kalaras, the Bhadauri- 
ya Rajah, Rajah Durjan Sal of Chanderi and others had been directed from 
Delhi to place themselves under Muhammad Khan’s orders. Sayyad Nijabat 
* The founder of Bhopal. Dowson’s Elliot, VIII, 57, 59. 
f About 44 miles south of Gwaliar. 
J About 102 miles S. of Gwaliar, 4 miles N. of Sarae Nau, and 16 miles N. of 
Sadhaura. 
§ I take this to be the Sipri of the maps, 67 miles S. of Gwaliar, but there is a 
Shiupuri 97 miles S. W. of that place. 
|| About 74 miles S. of Gwaliar. 
U Or perhaps the Pichor in Lat. 25° 57'; Long-. 78° 27' in Gwaliar territory, 
some 25 miles S. E. of Gwaliar on the left bank of the Sind river. 
