1S78.] W. Irvine —The Ban gash Naivabs of Farruhhdbdd. 
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case his Wazarat would be gone. A defeated Wazir was always dismissed. 
The Wazir therefore persuaded the Emperor to march in person to the 
attack of Bangarh. Kaim Khan joined the imperial army with his troops. 
This was in 1158 H. (Jan. 1745—Jan. 1746.) # 
For three stages the army came to the same river and drank its waters, 
so the Emperor gave it the name of the “faithful friend” (Yar-i-wafadar) ; 
it flows below Auseth. At length the army reached Bangarh and proceed¬ 
ed to invest it. Mirza Muklm ’Abd-ul-Mansur Khan Safdar Jang com¬ 
manded the vanguard. One night the Pathans made a night attack and 
surprised Safdar Jang’s battery, many of his men being killed. The Rohe- 
las returned in safety to Bangarh. Their fort was surrounded with such a 
thick plantation of bamboos that a cannon ball could not penetrate it. The 
firing went on for several days, till at last the Rohelas advised ’Ali Muham¬ 
mad Khan to make peace, for to him who fights his sovereign, his wife be¬ 
comes unlawful. ’Ali Muhammad Khan was to be introduced to the 
presence through Safdar Jang, the negotiations being conducted by his 
Diwan Naval Rae. 
Ivaim Khan’s troops lay on Safdar Jang’s right hand. One day ’Ali 
Muhammad Khan was on his way to Safdar Jang followed by twelve thou¬ 
sand mail-clad Pathans. As he passed his eye fell on Kaim Khan’s tents, 
and he asked whose camp it was. They told him that it was Kaim Khan’s. 
Then his principal men said, “ Why let the credit of the peace be gained by 
“ this’ Mughal and his Diwan, Naval Rae, there is your clansman, Kaim 
“ Khan, ask him to introduce you.” ’Ali Muhammad Khan agreed to the 
proposal and went to Kaim Khan, who received him most cordially. When 
Safdar Jang, who had been kept waiting, heard this he was much vexed, 
and for the rest of his life he bore a grudge to Kaim Khan. Then Kaim 
Khan tied ’Ali Muhammad Khan’s hands together with his own hand¬ 
kerchief, and took him to the presence, where his nazar was accepted. The 
Emperor forgave him, invested him with a robe of honour, and appointed 
him to the Subah of Sarhind, to the west of the Jamna. The Emperor 
and all the nobles then returned to Delhi, f 
In the year that Muhammad Shah died (1748) ’Ali Muhammad Khan 
left Sarhind and came back to Katahr. He died shortly afterwards on the 
3rd Shawwal 1161 H. (14th Sept. 1748), leaving three sons ’Abdullah 
Khan, Faizullah Khan and Sa’dullah Khan.J 
* Scott’s Farishta II, 218. The Life of H. R. K. p. 20, gives 1155 H. which would 
he before the death of Muhammad Khan, although in the same passage Kaim Khan is 
spoken of as the reigning Nawab. The Persian text mentions the 27th year, which fell 
in 1157 and 1158 H. 
f The author of the Iladikat-ul-Akdllm who was in Naval Rae’s army, confirms 
the fact of ’Ali Muhammad Khan’s presentation through Kaim Khan. 
1 Life of H. R. K. pp. 20 to 28. 
