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Dholpur. He gave an agreement under his seal, with sureties, not to act 
contrary to his word. Baji Bao left on the 13th of the same month, while 
Bajah Jai Singh proceeded towards Subah Ajmer, where the Batliors had 
raised disturbances. Apparently this was the occasion on which Baji Bao 
received the appointment of naib Nazim of Malwa.* 
Shortly afterwards, in the same year, the Mahrattas crossed over into 
the Duab and plundered Finizabad, ’Itimadpur and Jalesar. Burhan-ul- 
Mulk, without waiting for the rest of the Imperial forces, attacked and 
defeated them near Jalesar. Khan Dauran Khan then advanced from Delhi 
with a large force, accompanied by Muhammad Khan at the head of twelve 
thousand men. They met Burhan-ul-Mulk near Mathura early in Zi’l 
Hajj 1149 H. (March—April, 1737). As they were returning to Delhi the 
Jats of the village of Mitrol, between Kodal and Palwal, fell on and plun¬ 
dered their baggage. By the Emperor’s order Muhammad Khan returned 
to protect Akbarabad.f 
Muhammad Khan asks for Bengal and Patna, hut gets Allahabad. 
Kaim Khan was now at Court, and through his influence, the Emperor 
promised to appoint Muhammad Khan to Patna and Bangala. To conceal 
the matter from Mahabat Jang, the then Subahdar of Bengal, no sanad 
was to issue for that Subah, a note in the Emperor’s hand-writing being 
taken instead. Muhammad Shah was never long of one mind, and he 
soon began to raise difficulties. Muhammad Khan then proposed that Kaim 
Khan should be made Nazim of ’Azimabad-Patna, while he should be made 
naib of Bengal under the heir-apparent. He offered to remit to Court 
all the property confiscated by ’Ali Wardi Khan, and to pay regularly ten 
or fifteen times the revenue forwarded by Sarfaraz Khan, J signing any 
undertaking that might be demanded. Notwithstanding these promises, 
the negotiation seems to have fallen through. 
Allahabad was then asked for, but a formidable rival arose in Burhan- 
ul-Mulk, who offered a peshkash of fifteen lakhs of rupees. Muhammad 
Khan’s claims appear, however, to have had some weight. His conditions 
were, that he should obtain the Subah, free of all interference, including 
Jaunpur, Gfhazipur, Kuhna Sarae, Banaras, Hadah, Manikpur, Gfliora, Kalin- 
jar etc. ; that Kora and Kanauj should be made over to him as dependen¬ 
cies ; and that Sarkar Gwaliar should be given to Khizr Khan as Subah, 
with Muhammad Khan as Nazim. Without entering Kora, he could not 
bar the way to the sons of Chattarsal and Bhagwant, and if he had no 
* Grant Duff, 234, 235. 
f Dowson’s Elliot, VIII. 54, 55, 56. 
+ Son of the former Subahdar, Nawab Shuja’-ud-daula. He had been ousted by 
’Ali Wardi Khan Mahabat Jang, 
