1878.] W. Irvine —The Bang ash, JSTawdbs of Farruklidbdd. 
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Kaim Khan, it was, who planted the large mango grove outside the 
Kadiri gate, called the Lakhula Bagli from the number of trees (Lakh == 
100,000). It lies within the bounds of Khanpur, Barhpur, Chandpur, Museni, 
and Nekpur Kalan, and still covers some 158 acres. One of his last acts 
before starting on the Rohilkhand campaign was to order Kamal Khan chela 
to have the gateways of the Tirpolya Bazar and the bastions of the Kali 
Burj, just beneath the fort, completed by the time he returned. 
In his time on every birthday the fort used to be sumptuously adorn¬ 
ed. In the Baradari and Buland Mahal, canopies of Sultani broadcloth 
embroidered in gold used to be set up. There were twelve hundred staves 
or poles of gold and silver in his store-house. These were used when re¬ 
quired to support the broadcloth awnings. A cloth of gold curtain was 
hung at the Kamani gate. No one’s horse, or palki or elephant was allow¬ 
ed to enter the fort; all, however high in rank, dismounted at the gate. 
He had four wives, besides concubines ; the wives were (1) Shah Begam, 
his first wife, daughter of Kali Khan Bangash and nieee of Kasim Khan, 
(2) Bibi Jowahir, a Pathan woman, (3) Khas Mahal, a Domni from 
Chaloli close to Kaimganj, (4) Ma’tabar Mahal, a native of Delhi. He 
left no issue. 
No non-Moslem was allowed to touch his women’s ornaments ; no man 
was ever employed to sew their clothes ; and no physician was ever permitted 
to feel their pulse. The four wives all lived at the Amethi fort. They had 
extensive jagirs in their own names. As they died off, this property passed 
part to Sarfaraz Mahal, wife of Nawab Nasir Jang (1798—1813), part to 
Nasrat Jang, younger son of Nasir Jang, and part to the ruling Nawab. 
Whenever Shah Beg;am came from Amethi to visit her mother-in-law 
at Farrukhabad the whole of the bazar was closed. The shopkeepers call¬ 
ed this “ Hartal” or “ Hat-tara,” from hat a shop and tar a a lock, that 
is, they had to put locks on their shop doors. The conveyances were four- 
wheeled bullock carriages, covered with broadcloth from top to bottom. 
The Begam sat in the middle, and the slave girls round the edge. The 
cover was tied on with silken cords, and the whole was then locked up. A 
free woman of great age sat in front, and the driver was an old man. On 
the road no word was spoken. The eunuchs on horseback cleared the way. 
The bazar was closed for fear the Begams might overhear an unfit word. 
They say Nawab Muhammad Khan had four chosen friends (1) Man- 
gal Khan Musenagari, so named from his being a native of the town of 
Musenagar on the Jamna, which was then within the Nawab’s territory, (2) 
Ma ’zum Khan Daryabadi, # (3) Kliizr Khan Panni,f (4) Shuja’t Khan 
* Daryabacl is 43 miles E. of Lakhnau. 
t Panni is the name of a tribe of Pathans. 
