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58 William Irvine —The Later Mu gh ats. 
As the negociations with Jai Singh were still in progress and no 
satisfactory terms could he arranged, Ajit Singh, who was extremely 
anxious to return home, offered to visit Jai Singh in person on his way 
to Jodhpur. Accordingly he was dismissed to his home, and on the 
2nd Zu,l Hijjah (15th October, 1719) the report came in that three 
days before (12th October), Jai Singh had quitted Todah on his return 
to Amber. The fugitive nobles, Tahavvar Khan, Salabat Khan, and 
Ruhullah Khan, were at his request pardoned and left with him 
unmolested. The great persuasive in his withdrawal was the large 
sum of money that he received. Some say the amount was as much as 
twenty lakhs of rupees. This money was paid to him on the plea that 
it was required to buy back Amber from the Brahmans. To the public 
it was announced as a gift on his marriage with the daughter of Ajit 
Singh, to whom he had long been betrothed. As part of these nego¬ 
ciations Rajah Jai Singh obtained the government of Sarkcir Sorath 
(§tubah Ahmadabad). But the rest of Ahmadabad remained under 
Ajit Singh, with the addition of the whole of Ajmer. That rajah’s 
formal appointment to the latter subah was announced on the 23rd 
Zu,l Hijjah (5th November, 1719.) In this way the country from a 
point sixty miles south of Dihli to the shores of the ocean at Surat 
was in the hands of these two rajahs, very untrustworthy sentinels for 
the Mughals on this exposed frontier. 1 
Section 3.— The Emperor moves prom Fathpur to Agrah. 
From the date of his arrival in camp, 11th Zu,l Qa’dah (24th 
September, 1719) until the 20th Zu.,1 Hijjah, Muhammad Shah had 
never moved far from Fathpur Sikri. He kept the ‘Jd festival (10th 
Zu,l Hijjah) in his tents at Fathpur, and visited the tomb of Shah 
Salim, Cishti, at that place on the 14th of the same month. On the 
20th he started for Agrah, and three days later (5th November, 1719) 
he camped at Talab Kela Nath. On the 15th Muharram 1132 H. 
(27th November, 1719) quarters were taken up for a few days at the 
palace within the fort of Agrah, but on the 2nd Safar (14th December, 
1719) the emperor returned to his tents at his former encampment. At 
this time Sayyad Dilawar ‘All Khan, bakhshi of Husain ‘All Khan’s 
army, was sent towards Jalesar and Sa‘dabad in the Buabah to punish 
the Jats, who had lately carried off over one hundred of the imperial 
camels. 8 
1 Kamwar Khan, 214, 216, Khafi Khan, II, 838, Muhammad Qasim, Lahorl, 
297, Shiu Das, 32a. 
8 Kamwar Khan, 215, Muhammad Qasim, Lahorl, 2nd recension, 402. 
