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892.] H. G. Raverty —The Mihrdn of Sind and its Tributaries. 
In Shawwal, 650 H. (January, 1253 A. D.), Sultan Nasir-ud-Din, 
Mahmud Shah, set out from Dikii with his forces in the direction of 
Labor, with the intention of marching to Multan and U'chehh, in order 
to recover them from Malik Sher Khan, and restore them to Malik 
’Izz-ud-Din, Balban. Malik Sher Khan was the kinsman of the Ulu gh 
Klian-i-A’zam, and this movement against him was the first step in a 
plot which was then on foot, to overthrow the power of the Ulugh Khan- 
i-A’zam, and remove him from the court. The forces marched from 
Dihli by Kaithal, because the feudatories of Buda’un, Bhianah, and other 
parts, were to join with their contingents. The troops reached the banks 
of the Biah, but, as the conspirators had succeeded in getting the Ulugh 
Khan-i-A’zam banished to his fiefs of Hansi and the Siwalikh territory, 
the Sultan, who was a mere tool in their hands, marched back with 
them to Dihli in the first month of the following year. 
Towards the close of that year the Sultan again put his forces in 
motion for the purpose of securing Uchchh and Multan. On reaching 
the banks of the Biah, a force was despatched towards Tabarhindah, 
another of Malik Sher Khan’s fiefs; but he, leaving those places in the 
hands of his dependents, had retired towards Turkistan, to proceed to 
the presence of the Great Ka’an, Mangu Khan; and those provinces 
were taken from Malik Slier Khan’s dependents, and entrusted to the 
charge of Malik Arsalan Khan, Sanjar-i-Ohast; and the Sultan again 
retired from the banks of the Biah, beyond which the forces did not 
move, and returned to Dihli. 
About 653 A. H., the traitor, Malik ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban, (1255 
A. D.), was again placed in charge of Uohchh and Multan, apparently, 
west. Can any one imagine it would have been possible or desirable to have held 
Multan, U chch h, and Nag-awr, with a howling waterless desert between, and those 
districts also half a desert, with the principal river dried up, and two others merged 
into one, and thus rendering another vast tract desolate ? 
Nag-awr, at the period in question, was generally held by a separate feudatory, 
but ’Izz-ud-Din, Balban, possessed great interest with the rulers of the Shamsi 
dynasty, to whom he was related by marriage, having espoused a lady of the family 
of Sultan I-yal-timish. He rebelled several times, and yet his conduct was passed 
over, and he was again and again restored to favour, as may be seen from the 
“ Tabakat-i-Nasiri.’’ 
In Akbar Badshah’s reign, Nag-awr was one of the two western sarkdrs of the 
Ajmir sub ah; and Bikanir, of which Jasal-mir was only a mahdll or sub-district, w r as 
another sarkdr of Ajmir. Even in that day, when some of the rivers had greatly 
changed, and a great deal of desert intervened between Nag-awr and the Multan 
siibah , it contained thirty-one malidlls, and yielded a revenue of 40,389,830 dams, 
equal to 1,009,743 rupis, or upwards of ten lakhs, It is now a dependency of Jodh¬ 
pur in the territory of Mar-war, 
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