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The District of Leva Ismail Khan, Trans-Indus. [No. 1, 
Fath Khan. 
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Braham Khan. 
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Muhammad Khan. 
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Nu 9 rat Kit an. 
Nu$rat Khan was the last Baloch ruler of Dera Ismail. He is 
described as a profligate tyrant, and was removed from his dignity 
as governor by Taimur Shah Durrani. According to one account 
the pretext was, that some of Taimur Shah’s cannon had been lost 
in crossing the river near Kallur Kot, and the Gandapurs, in league 
with some of the king’s officers falsely laid the blame on Nu^- 
rat Khan. In any case Nujrat Khan was imprisoned at Kabul for 
twelve years, and although released after the accession of Zaman 
Shall, he was unable to recover his authority. Meanwhile, there 
had been several Pathan Governors of Dera Ismail, who are scarce¬ 
ly worth particularizing, until we come to Muhammad Khan 
Saddozai, known as Sarbal and Khan. He was the founder of the 
present Nawab’s family, and owed his appointment to the influence 
of Muzaffar Khan, Nawab of Multan. He gave his daughter in 
marriage to Hafiz Ahmad Khan, and was succeeded by the offspring 
of this marriage, Slier Muhammad, under the guardianship of 
Hafiz Ahmad. Shortly after this, in Sambat 1878, or A. D. 1821, 
Kanjft Singh led an army against the fort of Mankerah, Slier Mu¬ 
hammad’s Cis-Indus capital. After a siege of twenty days, Mankerah 
surrendered, and Sher Muhammad gave up the whole of his 
Cis-Indus territory, but was allowed to retain the western bank of 
the river. So matters continued for fifteen years longer, when a 
fresh expedition was sent from Labor under Nau Nilial Singh, who 
annexed the whole country, and compelled the Nawab to retire on 
a jagir. The few years immediately preceding our occupation were 
disturbed by intrigues and wars between the Sikh kardars, the 
Pathan chiefs, and an adventurer from the Salt Itange, Fath 
Khan Tiwanah, who seems to have been an eastern Alcibiades. 
Details are given by Edwardes in his ‘ Year on the Panjab Fron¬ 
tier.’ An account of the neighbourhood as it was in the beginning 
of the century, will be found in Elphinstone’s Cabul, Vol. II, pp. 55- 
