348 "VY. Irvine— The Bang ash Nawabs of FarruJchdbdd. [No. 4, 
Miyan do db o miyan do leaf 
Sl/uda hdail in mulk jumla miCdf 
Shavand kasba-i-Kol o Kora Tiadud 
JBa daryde Gang o Jaman insaraf 
There is a certain amount of exaggeration in the east and west 
boundaries thus given, and the parganahs across the Ganges are ignored. 
Taking the existing division into districts, one may say roughly that 
Nawab Muhammad held the western half of the Cawnpur district, the 
dividing line being drawn from Bithur on the Ganges to Musenagar on 
the Jamna; the whole of the Farrukhabad district; all of the Mainpuri 
district except perhaps one parganah ; the whole of the Eta district, except 
two small parganahs in the north-west corner; nearly one half of the 
Budaon district across the Ganges ; and one parganah of the Shahjahanpur 
district. If the Kauryaganj founded by Khan Bahadur be correctly iden¬ 
tified with the town in the ’Aligarh district, then the Nawab’s authority 
did extend within twelve miles of Kol-’Aligarh. The local tradition states 
that parganah Marahra in the Eta district was obtained in farm from the 
Sayyad jagirdars in 1738, # but the mode of acquisition was most probably 
a little less legal than through a farming lease. We know from the Life of 
Hafiz Bah mat Khanf that Muhammad Khan held Budaon, for it was while 
on an expedition with the Farrukhabad ’Amil against some zamindars, that 
Baud Khan caused Shah Alam Khan, the father of Hafiz Bahmat Khan, to 
be assassinated. 
The anecdotes already given show that the Nawab kept a very strict 
watch upon his agents, moving them frequently and prohibiting them from 
building permanently. In this way he seems to have kept complete con¬ 
trol over his country and his orders were implicitly obeyed. The following 
notices are gleaned from Sahib Bae’s collection of the Nawab’s corre¬ 
spondence. 
Kanatij. In the second year of Muhammad Shah’s reign (Feb. 1720 
to Jan. 1721) the faujdari of this Sarkar was in the name of the Nawab’s 
son, Kaim Khan. Then, when Bajah Girdhar Bahadur was removed from 
Allahabad, he begged for a territory near his house as a residence for his 
dependents. The faujdari of Kanauj was then relinquished to Girdhar 
Bahadur. After his death it passed from one to another till the Bhadau- 
riya Bajah obtained it. When Muhammad Khan was restored to Allahabad 
in the year 1148 H., he objected strongly to leaving his home country in 
the hands of a “ hypocritical infidel.” The jagir was therefore granted to 
him. The nett income he states at Bs. 8000 a year. The old gumma pay¬ 
able to the Imperial Treasury was 35,00,000 of dam, but after enhancement 
it had been raised to one leror of dam. 
* Gaz. IY, 158, 162. 
f Sec p. 9. 
