J12 Maulavi Abdul Wali —Archaeological remains in UajshaJri. [No. 2, 
that renowned scholar and man, Maulana Hamid Danishmand, whose 
life and fame cast an additional lustre on the family. His son Shah 
‘Abdu-l-Wahhab got in 1033 A.H. from Shah Jaban, son of Emperor 
Jahangir, forty-two m&uz&s, with an annual rent of Rs. 8,000 as a Jagir. 
This Jagir, was given by that prince, while as it appears from history, 
he held temporarily the Dictatorship of Bengal, having rebelled against 
his father. In 1032 A.H. (1662 A.D.) a bloody battle was fought 
between the Subahdar Ibrahim IQian Fath-Jang and that Prince, in 
which the faithful Subahdar died fighting. This grant, so it appears, 
was subsequently ratified and reaffirmed by Emperor Jahangir; thus 
the Bagha Jagir was not, as it is said, conferred by both of them under 
separate Sanads. 
In the yearl047 A.H. (1637 A.D.) Shah Muhammad Rafiq, son 
of ‘Abdu-l-Wahhab, made a waqf of the eight-annas share of the pro¬ 
perty, the remaining eight annas remaining with the sons of his brother, 
Nuru-l-‘Arifin. The Mutawalli of the Estate, who is styled Ba’is , per¬ 
forms all the duties of his office, e.g., the celebration of the l TIrs looking 
after the Madrasah, the Masjid and the Musafirin (wayfarers) &c., &c. 
The first Ra’is was Mu‘inu-1-Islam, eldest son of Shah Muhammad 
Rafiq, the donor. The second and third Ra’ises were respectively his 
son and grandson, Shamsu-l-Islam and Sharifu-l-Islam. The fourth 
Ra’is was Fasihu-l-Islam, brother of Sharifu-l-Islam. Fa sihu-l-Isl ana’s 
son, Faizu-l-Islam, who was the fifth Ra’is, died without leaving any 
male issue. He was, therefore, succeeded, by his son-in-law, Nur ‘Alam, 
as the sixth Ra’is. Khundkar ‘Abdullah, the son of the latter, was 
elevated to gadi , as the Seventh Ra’is. 
Shah Muhammad Rafiq’s second son, Badru-l-Islam, and grandson, 
Amiru-l-Islam, were not Ra’ises, as Rafiq’s eldest son, and the latter’s 
descendants, succeeded one after another, till the time of the fifth Ra’is, 
Fasihu-l-Islam, who died leaving no male issue. As ‘Abdullah, like his 
father, was not descended from the male line of the donor, and as also 
not qualified for the post of Mutawalli, Amiru-l-Islam’s son Musafiru-1- 
Islam instituted in 1805 A.D. a suit in the Sadr Diwani ‘Adalat, 
Calcutta, to establish his rights as a Mutawalli. The case being de¬ 
cided in his favour, he was installed in 1806 as the eighth Ra’is, when 
‘Abdullah had to retire. Musafiru-l-Islam’s tw T o sons, Muzaffaru-l-Islam 
and ‘Azizu-l-Islam succeeded one after the other as the ninth and tenth 
Ra : 'ises. The latter having lost a grown-up son, declared as his successor 
to the Riyasat his other son, Tansiqu-l-Islam, who succeeded him. 
The present or the twelfth Ra’is, Amiru-l-Islam, is a brother of Tansiqu- 
l-Islam. 
The family of the Bagha Khundkars has enjoyed till lately great 
