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Muhammad Khan’s recommendation of Hindu Singh Chandela* * * § for whom 
he had asked for the rank of Sihhazdri , 2000 horse, a jdgir of his native 
country, and restoration to his zamindari. If Hindu Singh were sent to 
Malwa, the Bhadauriya Rajah would no longer have a pretext for lingering 
at Kanauj (where he held the office of Faujdar). 
After Mulhar and Anthu had recrossed the Narbada, Muhammad Khan 
went to extort his revenue from one Umanf ; and in two marches having 
reached Rajgarh,^ he defeated the zamindar referred to, and settled matters 
with him. Muhammad Khan then returned to Sironj. This place, which is 
about 136 miles north-east of Ujain and about 150 miles south of Gwaliar, 
he made his head-quarters, probably because it was further from the Narba¬ 
da than Ujain, and nearer his line of retreat by Gwaliar to Hindustan. 
His foothold in Malwa was too precarious for him to risk being sur¬ 
rounded and cut off. He appears to have remained at Sironj during the 
rainy season of 1731. 
The state of the Siibah was most deplorable. The whole country had 
been spoiled by the Nazim and ravaged by the Mahrattas. It was entirely 
out of cultivation and uninhabited (be cheragh) , nowhere was any crop to be 
seen, there was nothing but dry grass. The villages which were inhabited 
had been plundered by the Thakurs and burnt to the ground, the ravages 
of the infidel caused the country to be deserted. Only Rs. 5000 had been 
collected from Mandeshwar and Rs. 4000 from Sironj and Bhilsa.§ 
During the rains of 1731, Muhammad Khan made repeated reports of these 
facts, stating his want of money, the mutinous conduct of his troops, the 
impossibility of getting any revenue from Malwa, and the necessity for 
help in men and money. These urgent appeals were left unanswered. 
His difficulties were further increased by the fact that Malwa, from 
one end to the other, was granted out in tcinkhwah to jagirdars, who were 
backed up by Khan Dauran Khan and Roshan-ud-daula. These jagirdars 
complained at Court of the slightest interference, but gave not the least assis¬ 
tance. Nowhere was there sufficient land left for the Subahdar to plant the 
sole of his foot, much less to use for a riding or hunting-ground. On the 
one side, from a tank which lies two and a half kos from Ujain, began the 
jdgir of Burhan-ul-Mulk and others ; and in another direction, from Fatha- 
* Apparently Hindu Singh of Chachendi in the Cawnpur district. He was ejected 
from his estate in the tenth year by Burhan-ul-Mulk and Rajah Gopal Singh Bhadau¬ 
riya. [Dowson’s Elliot VIII. 46.] 
f Or Admiyan. 
J Long. 76°, 46'and Lat. 24°—32 miles N. of Sarangpur and 66 miles W. of 
Sironj. 
§ About 44 miljs S. E. of Sironj. 
