1878.] 
W. Irvine —The Bangctsh Nciwabs of Fnrru/chdtbdd. 
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bad, # four or five 1cos from the city, the parganahs and villages were all in 
jagir. Rampurah f was held by Rajah Jai Singh Sawai; Haif Ali Khan’s 
jdgir wasKankral; Rajah Miilraj held Kadraulah in Dhamoni ;J other por¬ 
tions of the Subah had been assigned to Nizam-ul-Mulk Asaf Jab, to 
Nawab Ivudsia,§ to Hafiz Khidmatgar Khan, Mukarrab-ul-hazrat Khakan, 
to Mir Husain Khan Kokah,|| to Sa’d-ud-din Khan Bahadur Mir Atash, 
to ’Ali Ahmad Khan, and to the eunuchs of His Majesty. Many of the 
agents of these grantees allowed their taSluJcahs to become places of resort 
for the Mahrattas, where the plunder from the imperial territory was 
stored. When any Mahrattas took refuge with them and a force was 
sent after them, the agents declared that there were no fugitives in their 
parganahs. If the army entered their lands, they then raised loud com¬ 
plaints of the damage. Thus everything had to be left in confusion, and 
it became impossible to re-settle the country. 
The zamindars of Rampurah. were in league with Mulhar Holkar and 
helped to plunder the country. When the imperial army followed them up, 
Rajah Jai Singh Sawai remonstrated at Court, and Muhammad Khan was 
rebuked. In defending himself he gives an instance of what was done. Sita 
Ram Nagar had been chief writer of the zamindars of Rampurah till Raj 
Adhiraj took possession. This man then became a jama’dar in the regiment 
of Mukim Khan. Having broken his leg, he was put on Mukim Khan’s 
elephant, and the day the army left Bansilah he set out for his home fol¬ 
lowed by fifty or sixty men. Rajah Jai Singh Sawai’s men were lying in 
ambush at seven or eight /cos from Rampurah. As he passed they stopped 
him and seized the elephant. They would neither return the elephant nor 
grant an interview to the Nawab’s messengers. Muhammad Khan exclaims 
how hard it is that Raj Adhiraj, who held all Akbarabad and Ajmer, 
and had lately received the parganahs round the capital, should try to 
stretch forth his hand on Subah Malwa and intrigue there with the infidels. 
As for Haif ’Ali Khan’syay^V, it had been customary for the zamindar 
of Kankral to pay pes/ikas/i to former nazims ; one lakh of rupees had been 
paid to Rajah Girdhar Bahadur besides four elephants. Now instead of 
injuring, Muhammad Khan had benefited the jagirdar. When Mukim 
Khan went there, he settled the zamindars’ payment at a higher amount, 
collected the money, and remitted it to the jagirdar. The latter’s Amil still 
retained possession of th q jdgirs of ’Abd-ur-razak Khan, Khwajah Munir 
* About 12 miles S. of Ujain. 
j- There are several Rampurahs, I suppose this to be the one 56 miles N. W. 
of Sironj. 
X 69 miles E. of Sironj near Khiinlasa. 
§ Mother of Muhammad Shah. 
1| Killed in 1149 H. in fight with Baji Rao outside Delhi. Grant Duff, p. 236. 
