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up in this Agrah rising were Rup Lai, Kayath, brother of Hira Lai, the 
dlwan of Sher Afgan Khan, Panipati, and one Hiramat, a hazari, or 
officer of garrison artillery. But there can be no doubt that the prime 
mover was Mitr Sen, a Nagar Brahman. 1 
This Mitr Sen resided in the fort of Agrah, in the employ of Prince 
Nekusiyar. He had some knowledge of physic; Through this means, 
and money-lending, he acquired considerable influence among the hazards 
and Baksariyahs forming the garrison. 2 When, a few months before 
this time Husain ‘ All Khan passed through Agrah, on his way from 
the Dakhin to Dihli, Mitr Sen, introduced by some of the Bakhsin’s 
attendants and some fellow-Brahmans, obtained access to the audience- 
hall, and thus became known by sight to the Mir Bakhshi. 3 , 
Some of the Sayyad’s old wounds having opened afresh and given 
him trouble, Mitr Sen offered his services as surgeon, and in this way 
obtained private speech with Husain ‘All Khan. Prom some of the 
Mir Bakhshi’s intimates he had wormed out the secret that Farrukh- 
siyar would soon be dethroned. This inspired him .with the idea that 
Nekusiyar might be proposed as a candidate for the vacant throne. The 
artillery officers entered into the plan. Mitr Sen thereupon, without 
gaining over any great noble, or even consulting Nekusiyar, made over¬ 
tures in the prince’s name to Husain ‘All Khan. The latter, enraged 
that his secret intention should have been divined, directed that Mitr 
Sen should no longer be admitted to his presence. 4 
Mitr Sen made his escape. He is supposed to have gone now to 
Rajah .Jai Singh at Amber, where conditions were agreed on with him, 
and a letter addressed by Rajah Jai Singh to Rajah Chabelah Ram, 
governor of Allahabad, was made over to him. It was also believed 
that Mitr Sen visited Nizam-ul-mulk when he passed through Agrah, 
but from him no definite answer was obtained. The secret of this in¬ 
terview was nob kept; and it was the receipt of a report about it that 
1 Muhammad Qasim, Lahori, 267, styles him a Tiwari. which is a sub-division 
of the Gaur Brahmans. Kamwar Khan, 180, Burhdn-ul-fatuh, 167a. 
2 Kazan (literally, “ having a thousand ”) is the name for a captain of artillery. 
Sometimes they are called by the Turkish word minkldthi, “ head of one thou¬ 
sand.” Baksariyah means a footsoldier or militia man. Apparently the name is 
derived from Baksar on the Ganges, a fort in parganah Bhojpur of Siibah Buhar, if 
we are to trust Rae Chatarman, Chahdr gulshan, fol. 127b, who in an itinerary 
from Bareli to Patnah enters “ Baksar, original home of the Baksariyahs.” 
3 I doubt if Agrah can be the right place of meeting, for Husain ‘All Khan 
does not seem to have passed through it on his way to Dihli. I tell the story as 
Khafi Khan does : the rest of the facts are probably correct. 
* Khafi Khan, II, 825. 
