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871 
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“ My name is Dalel Khan, how can I retreat, the good name of the Ban- 
gash is in my hands, on me is the hand of Muhammad Shah, whose is this 
sword. This Pathan honour have I bound fast round me, I will fight face to 
face. Through their youthful strength the Pathans will enter the hottest 
of the struggle. They fear not the fray. Rajah and Maharajah will flee 
at the sight of my bare sword. Said brave Dalel, boldly in the battle¬ 
field, call ‘ Ali, Ali’ as Hindus call on Hanuman.” 
12th .—When Dalel Khan saw his companions fall, he exclaimed: 
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“ My son Murad Khan is dead and brother Ibrahim ; Hamid, Haidar, 
Fatte Khan, each ate opium and died. Dead, too, is Inayat Khan, the 
powerful Pathan. My life is now worthless ; saying this, he grasped his 
sword.” 
13^7/.—W T hen Dalel Khan rushed into the midst of the Bundelas, a 
poet of their side said— 
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“ Dalel flees before the waves of the Bundelas.” A Bundela reproved 
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“ The Bundelas flee before the torrent of Dalel’s attack.” 
NAWAB KAIM KHAN. 
On his father’s death in December 1748, Kaim Khan the eldest son suc¬ 
ceeded without opposition. We have already seen that he was employed in 
1721 to avenge the death of Daler Khan ; and in 1729 it was he who col¬ 
lected a force to relieve his father from investment by the Mahrattas at 
Jaitpur. During the later years of Muhammad Khan’s life he had lived at 
Delhi as his father’s representative, and many stories, trivial in themselves 
and not worth repetition here, are told of the affection shown to him by the 
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