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W. Irvine —The Banff ash Nawdhs of Farrukhdbdd. [No. 4, 
Rs. 17,000, in hundis upon the bankers of Lahore, to the commanders (tuman- 
dars) of the Afghans living in Kabul. They were requested to enlist re¬ 
cruits, but none appear to have come. 
The only answer from Court to Muhammad Khan’s appeals was an 
upbraiding letter from Khan Dauran Khan. The Mahrattas had been 
allowed to spread all over the country, while Muhammad Khan’s agents ac¬ 
companied them, pointing out the proper routes. It was asserted that the 
arrival of the enemy at Orchha and Narwar was with the connivance of 
those agents. By great exertions, Ivhan Dauran Khan says, he had ob¬ 
tained a renewal of the grant of parganah Akbarpur* from 1146 Fusli, al¬ 
though His Majesty said it had been granted several years before for one har¬ 
vest only, and the officials of the Diwani made objection that it was Tehalisa , 
or directly under the Crown. In another letter of this time, Khan Dauran 
Khan sets forth with great vehemence his own incorruptibility, and 
asserts that, except the enhanced jdgir of one kror of dam granted in the 
Sayyads’ time (1713-1720), he had received nothing. All beyond this he 
held to be accursed. What then could he gain by dismissals or appoint¬ 
ments to offices or jdgirs ? When Muhammad Khan was appointed to 
Malwa, he had, out of friendship, pressed for the removal of one of his 
(Khan Dauran’s) own relations, who had been previously named. 
Soon a farman in the Emperor’s own hand-writing reached Sironj, 
informing Muhammad Khan that Rajah Jai Singh Sawae had been 
appointed his successor, and directing him to report himself at Mustakirr- 
ul-Khilafat Akbarabad, to which place the Emperor in person intended to 
proceed after limiting in the preserves of Shiuli near Delhi. Information 
of his supercession had already reached him on the 4th Jamadi, I. (12th 
Oct. 1732), in letters from Kaim Khan, his son, Mangal Khan, who had 
gone to Delhi to raise men and money, and Pir ’Ali Khan, his representa¬ 
tive. at Court. Orders were at once issued to Muldm Khan to report himself 
to Muhammad Khan after making over the town of Ujain and the other 
places to the servants of Raj Adhiraj. On the 6th of the same month 
(14th Oct. 1732), the Nawab’s family and dependents started on their way 
home. The men engaged by Mangal Khan were made over, with the 
Emperor’s approval, to the naibs of Rij Adhiraj (Jai Singh Sawae). Mu¬ 
hammad Khan then left Malwa and arrived at Akbarabad on the 29th 
Jamadi, II. (6th Dec. 1732), after an absence of two years. 
Apart from difficulties about money, and the general non-success of 
his arms, three causes appear to have led to Muhammad Khan’s disgrace, 
(i), the complaints of the jagirdars, who were influential in the 
palace, (2), the attack on Chattar Singh Narwari, who was protected by the 
favourite, Hafiz Khidmatgar Khan, and others, (3), the friendship which 
* In the Cawnpur district. 
