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W. Irvine — The Later Mu gh als (1707-1803). 
[No 2, 
was Afrasyab Khan, Bahadur, a Wdlashaht, or personal follower of 
Farrukhsiyar, with whom he had been in Bengal and had there taught 
him wrestling. 1 2 The pay-mastership of the Ahadls® was given to 
Qamaru-d-din lOian, Bahadur, son of the above-named Muhammad-Amin 
Khan. Islam Khan (grandson of the late Islam Khan), formerly 
Mir Atash to Bahadur Shah, who had retired from court, was 
restored to his rank of 5,000, 3,000 horse, and appointed to be first Mir 
Tozak , or quarter-master-general. 3 For the period of one month from 
the victory at Agrah, Sa’d-ullah Khan 4 * (son of ‘Inayat-ullah Khan, 
Kashmiri) was continued in the office of Khansaman. or Lord High 
Steward; but at the camp in Khizrabad, this office was transferred to 
Taqarrub Khan (Muhammad Ja‘far, Shirazi), who already held the 
place of Private secretary. 6 
Some smaller court offices were conferred on Farrukhsiyar’s personal 
favourites. Although these offices were of the second rank, their holders 
exercised, as we shall soon see, as much if not more power than the 
nobles who were nominally their superiors. For instance, against the 
opinion of Mir Jumlah, who was officially no more than head of the 
pages and messengers, the chief minister himself found it impossible to 
act. The office of Confiscations and Escheats ( buyutdtl ) was given 
to Saif-ullah Khan, Bahadur, a Wdld-shdhi; Khwaja ‘Asim, now 
created Samsamu-d-daulah, Khan Dauran, Bahadur, Mansur Jang, was 
superintendent of the Audience Hall and Bakhshi of the personal 
1 Afrasyab Khan, Bahadur, Rustam Jang, was Suhrab, known as MIrza Ajmeri 
son of Garshasp. He died at Dihll on the night of the 25th Ramazan, 1130 H., 21st 
August, 1718, Tarikh-i-Mhdi. His elder brother was the Rashid Khan sent in 1124 
H., 1712, to oust Jaffar Khan, ndzim of Bengal, Gladwin, “Transactions,” 96. MIrza 
Ajmeri was of such strength that once he lifted a small gun and its carriage out 
of the mud on the road from Akbarnagar to Raj Mahal, Akhbdr-i-Muhabbat, 277. 
2 Ahadi (one, single) means a gentleman trooper serving under no chief or 
noble, but directly under the Emperor. 
3 This Islam Khan (d. 1144 H., 1731-2), was one Mir Ahmad, first Barkhurdar 
Khan, then Islam Khan, son of Safi Khan (d. 1105 H., 1693-4), the second son of 
‘ Abdu-s-salam, first Ikhtisa? Khan, then Islam Khan, MashhadI, (d. 1057 H., 1647-8), 
M.-ul-u., I, 162, II, 740. 
4 His former titles were Hidayat-ullah Khan, and then for a time, after the 
death of Mun‘im Khan, Bahadur Shah’s Wazlr, he was Wazarat Khan. We shall 
speak of this man again presently. 
6 MIrza Muhammad, 169, KamwarKhan, 121, 143, Khafi Khan, II, 728, Warid, 
149b, Kam Raj, ‘ Ibratnamah, 53b. Khafi Khan says the third baHshi was Ghazlq-d-dln 
Khan (Ahmad Beg). Yahya Khan, 122a, on the contrary, says that this man was 
made Mir Atash. This latter statement is confirmed by Mhd. Qasim, Lahorl, 170, 
the date being 12th Sha'ban, 1125 H., (2nd September, 1713), vice Zu-l-fiqEr Khan 
(Gfiulam ‘Ali Kh»u). 
