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Khan and Ghasi Ram. After settling Ujain, Muhammad Khan intended, 
he said, to go to Dhamoni to recover the jagir of Rajah Mulraj. 
Seeing that no one in the Presence paid any attention to his represen¬ 
tations, Muhammad Khan determined to leave a naib in his place and 
repair to Court On his way, he resolved to settle Shahabad* and Ranudah,f 
the faujdari of which Rajah Chattar Singh had not yet relinquished, and 
he had also behaved badly to ’Atik-ullah Khan, naib of Muhammad Khan. 
This expedition put the finishing touch to the Nawab’s misdeeds, and no 
doubt formed one of the causes of his sudden recall. 
Rajah Chattar Singh Narwari, who was specially recommended to Mu¬ 
hammad Khan by Hafiz Khidmatgar Khan as his “ friend and companion”, 
held the Sarkars of Shahabad and Ranudah, to which Muhammad Khan had 
been appointed faujdar. His ancestral estates were in Shiupuri and Kala- 
ras, and his country extended up to the neighbourhood of Sironj. He 
also held Narwar,J which for seven hundred years had never been in posses¬ 
sion of the Hindus. Although he had been ordered to join he did not attend, 
he did not give up the Sarkars , and nothing could be collected ; at length he 
surrounded Sayyad Atik-ullah Khan, naib, and cut oft his supplies. From 
his position in the line of Muhammad Khan’s communication with Hindu¬ 
stan, he was able to give great annoyance. Narwar, “ which is as a gateway 
“ sufficient for the passage of one man at a time”, was the only route open 
to recruits ; the road by Bhadawar being closed by the Bhadauriya Rajah. 
Seven or eight times the men of Chattar Singh had murdered messengers at 
the pass of Narwar and had taken their letters. Only one pair of messengers, 
after giving up their letters, had escaped with their lives. To obviate this 
inconvenience, Muhammad Khan renewed his request that his son Akbar 
Klian might be made faujdar of Narwar and Bhadawar. Or if that were 
not approved, some one of the Mughal party might be appointed to keep 
the road open. This request was refused on the ground that, Shahabad 
having recently been taken from Rajah Chattar Singh, Narwar, his native 
country, could not be taken without any fault. As an alternative, the 
Nawab urged that Chattar Singh’s rank (mansab) and jdgirs might be 
taken away, as a lesson to others who had failed to attend in obedience to 
the Emperor’s orders. After writing to him in vain several times, Muham¬ 
mad Khan decided to proceed to active measures against him. 
About the commencement of his second year in Malwa (October—No¬ 
vember, 1731,) Muhammad Khan marched to Sarae Nau about fifty miles 
north of Sironj, giving out that he was on his way to Court. On the 3rd 
Jamadi, I. 1141 H. (23rd October, 1731), the army surrounded the village 
* About 90 miles N. W. of Sironj. 
f About 68 miles N. of Sironj. 
X About 44 miles S. of Gwaliar. 
