Whenever Nawab 'Abd-ul-Majíd Khán went out, he gave his khánsámán several rupees with instructions to give one to Mayá Rám Baniya, a man who kept a shop at his gate, in order that he might present it as a ·nazar on the Nawáb's mounting, for it was a good omen. He also sent four annas to a gardener for a garland and flowers, to be given as he started. Several rupees were changed into kauris, which were divided into two-paisa lots. Orders were then given to the khánsámán to warn the troops, as the Nawab Sahib was coming and required an escort. Accordingly the khánsámán told all the tenants of the Nawáb's houses that the Nawáb was coming. They were of all castes high and low.

The Nawab then mounted a horse adorned with silver trappings, a khidmatgár waved a chaunri, while some four to eight companions followed on ponies. When the Nawáb reached his gate, Máyá Rám Baniya presented the rupee. The pán-seller gave a dona of pán, of which the Nawáb ate some, and gave the rest to the khánsámán. Then the gardener offered the flowers, from which the Nawab selected one and stuck it in his turban. When he came back, he directed the khánsámán to dismiss the army for that day. On each man present a taka in kauris was bestowed, and with a salám to the Nawáb they went away.

When any of the younger men of the Sáhibzádah families visited ’Abdul-Masjid Khán, it was a favourite joke to tickle their nostrils with a straw and produce an artificial sneeze. They would then ask for pardon. But 'Abd-ul-Masjid Khán would only get the more angry, and request them never to come near him again. Then the Sáhibzádahs would hold their handkerchiefs to their faces to conceal their smiles.

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7. Husain Khán. Executed at Allahábád by orders of Safdar Jang. Fakhr-ud-din Khán. One account says he was killed with Káim Khán, another that he was one of the five sons executed at Allahábád. He left one daughter.

9. Ismá'il Khán. He left four sons. He was one of the five executed at Allahábád.

10. Karím Dád Khán. One of the five executed at Allahábád. He left two sons.

11.

Imám Khán. He was named by the Bíbí Sáḥiba as Káim Khán's successor, and he was reigning Nawáb for five months and some days. He was arrested and sent to Allahábád, where with Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 he was executed in 1750 by orders of Safdar Jang. He left two sons.

12. Khuda Bandah Khán, or in some MSS. Khudáwand Khán. In some lists he is placed fourth, but this seems to have been done to flatter his son, Amín-ud-daula, who as náib was all powerful from 1786 to 1803. Khuda Bandah Khán died at his fort in Delhi on the 9th Zi'l Hajj 1194 H. (7th Dec. 1780). His júgir, obtained on his daughter, Umráo Begam's,

marriage to Nawab Muzaffar Jang, was the parganah of Sakráwa. He left

one son.

13. Mansúr’Ali Khán. He had one daughter.

14. Hádidád Khán. Killed with Káim Khán, leaving no issue.

15. Bahadur Khán. He also was killed with Káim Khán; he left two sons.

16. Shádí Khán. He was killed by a cannon shot at the siege of the Fatehgarh fort by the Mahrattas in April-May 1751. He left no issue.

17. Salábat Khán. He was living in 1802; he had four sons.

19. Muḥammad Amín Khán. He gave abuse to some zamindár, who thereupon cut him down with his sword. Miyán 'Alím-ullah Sháh Pírzáda, who lived in Ján 'Ali Khán's masjíd at the gate of the fort, cut down the zamindár. Amín Khán left two sons.

20. ’Atá-ullah Khán. He was shot by mistake by Roshan Khán Bangash Ustarzai, son-in-law of Muhammad Khán, one day that the Nawáb was out tiger-shooting in Bahbalpúr Sawárah.*

21. 'Azim Khán. He survived the Cession and left ten sons.

22.

Sháistah Khán. He also was alive in 1802, he left one son. In the time of 'Alamgír II. (1754-1759) Nawáb Ahmad Khán attended for two years at Court, and performed his duties as Bakhshi of the empire. While he was away, Sháistah Khán set up an imperial throne in his house and made a gulál báṛi in imitation of the Emperor's audience hall. He ordered his servants to make him obeisance as if he were Emperor. Several thousand rupees were also coined, worth seventeen annas each, with the legend

Sikka zad dar bahr o bar az auj máhi tá bamáh

Sáni Taimúr o Bábar, Hazrat i Sháistah Shah.

Sending one of the rupees, Bakhshi Fakhr-ud-daula reported all this to Ahmad Khán. Alarmed lest the Emperor might hear of it, he ordered the Bakhshi to take away Sháistah Khán's jagír, to seize and destroy all the rupees he could lay hands on, and to imprison the Sáhibzáda in the fort. It was only after many months that Sháistah Khán was set at liberty.

The daughters of Muhammad Khán.

It is said that the late Amír Dost Muhammad of Kábul had so * The MS. says near Kádirganj, which is in the Etá District near the Ganges, some 45 miles N. W. of Farrukhábád (Gaz. IV, 151) while the place meant is in the Tarái between the Burh Ganga and the Ganges, four or five miles west of Kampíl, nine or ten miles from Kádirganj, and some 35 miles N. W. of Farrukhábád. There is good shooting there still, but no tigers.

many sons that he did not know them all by sight, so when he met any wellmounted and well-dressed youth, he would ride up and ask him whether be was his son or not. A somewhat similar anecdote is related of Nawáb Muhammad Khán. One day seeing a married daughter in the women's apartments, he turned to the Bíbí Sáḥiba and asked what wife (maḥal) it was. The Bíbí Sáḥiba gave him one or two slaps on the back, and replied "What do you mean, she is one of your daughters."

She was mar

The daughters who grew up and were married were1. Bíbí Roshan Jahán, the full sister of Káim Khán. ried to Roshan Khán Bangash Ustarzai, but had no issue. She founded the bazár of Roshanábád, parganah Shamshábád West, on the old road, nine miles north-west of Farrukhábád. There is a small mosque, now rapidly falling into decay, the inscription on which has gone; and a well close by with a stone let into the side on which a few words only can be now deciphered. In 1846 it was read as follows:

Cha sharín áb-i-cháh-i-Roshanábád.

Káli Ráe (p. 113) gives the date as 1149 H. (1st May 1736—20th April 1737). She is also called the "Shahr kí Bíbí," and the villagers still believe in her power of exorcism. She is said to have been buried in Kásim Khán’s tomb in the Kásim Bágh at Fatehgarh (see p. 276). She had one full sister who died unmarried, aged twelve or thirteen.

2. Bíbí Rahmat-un-nissa. She was married to 'Inayat 'Ali Khán after the death of his wife, Bíbi Fátima, daughter of Himmat Khán and niece of Muhammad Khán. This daughter had no full blood brother. was the mother of (1) Sulţán ’Ali Khán, (2) Rustam ’Ali Khán.

She

3. Karím-un-nissa. She became the wife of the above 'Inayat 'Ali Khán after the death of Rahmat-un-nissa (No. 2). She had no full brother. Her sons were (1) Murád 'Ali Khán, (2) 'Azim Khán.

4. (Name unknown) wife of her cousin, Shuja't 'Ali Khán, son of 'Inayat 'Ali Khán (see above Nos. 2 and 3), by his first wife, Bíbí Fátima. This daughter had no full blood brother nor any sons.

5. Bhúrí Khánum, wife of her cousin, Muhammad ’Ali Khán Ban gash, full brother of Shuja't 'Ali Khán (see No. 4). She had no full brother, she was the mother of (1) Amír ’Ali Khán, (2) Kutb ’Ali Khán.

6. Begamá Sáhiba, wife of Irádat 'Ali Khán Bangash, son of Shuja't 'Ali Khán. She had neither full brother nor offspring.

7. Bíbí Káfiya, full sister of Isma’il Khán (No. 9), and Sháista Khán (No. 22), and wife of Rustam Khán Bangash. She had no children.

8. (Name unknown) wife of Mustaffa Khán and full sister of No. 7. She had no children.

9. Bíbí Daulat Khátun. She married Khuá Dad Khán, Bangash

Ustarzai Karlâni, and was the great-grandmother of Manavar 'Ali Khán, one of the joint authors of the "Lauḥ-i-Táríkh." The family tree is

Manarar A. K. Haiyát A. K. Husain A. K. Sa'dat A. K. Shuja't one b. 1798 d. 1863

A. K. daughter

She is said to have been very generous and charitable. It was at her expense that the tomb of her father, Muḥammad Khán, in the Haiyát Bágh was repaired. She became a disciple of 'Atá Karím Sháh of Salon.* When Nawab Muzaffar Jang stopped all the family pensions, she went to Delhi, and the Emperor made over to her the income of Bangashghát. On Muzaffar Jang's entreaties she returned, and received in jágir the village of Barna Khúrd, parganah Bhojpúr, 900 kacha bigahs in Khanḍiya, parganah Kampil, and the Tárwála Bagh or Naulakha. When her son Sikandar ’Ali Khán died, she turned faqir, wearing only white clothes or in winter a blanket. She was very humble-minded and spent her time in spinning or in praying at her son's tomb. Among her other accomplishments she understood bricklaying and carpenter's work. We hear of her tending the bruises of Káim Khán's widow after the assault on the Amețhi fort in 1772-73 (see Part II).

She was excessively fond of her great-grandson, Manavar 'Ali Khán, and never allowed him to be for a moment out of her sight. When he was five years old, she married him to the granddaughter of Sanjar Khán of Rudáin, parganah Kampil, and obtained for him from Nawab Násir Jang (1796-1813) an allowance of ten rupees a month.

One day she returned to the Bará Mahal from the house she was building in Bangashpura, on the site given her by her father at her marriage. When she got out of her conveyance she at once asked for a drink of water. Her slave girls having conspired to poison her, brought poisoned water in a fresh vessel. She drank and then Manavar 'Ali Khán. The latter vomited at once and so recovered. Daulat Khátun did nothing, as no traces of poison betrayed themselves. At length when the poison showed itself, every remedy was resorted to without effect. In the evening her bed was brought out, and her grandson, Sarfaráz 'Ali Khán, with his own hand gave her some On the Sai about 20 miles S. E. of Rác Bareli in Audh,

medicine, but as her teeth were clenched, it could not be got down her throat. She then expired. The date was the 17th Rabi I. 1224 (2nd May, 1809).

At once Nawáb Násir Jang and Sarfaráz Maḥal came to the dwelling where Daulat Khátun died, placed their own locks on all the doors, and stationed a guard at the gate, any one passing in or out was searched. Next morning Amín-ud-daula (son of Khudábandah Khán No. 12) came, and when she was bathed for interment he noticed that some one must have poisoned his aunt. However, he did nothing, and she was buried within her own house at Bangashpura. Násir Jang then confiscated all the property, and at the suggestion of Sarfaráz Maḥal stopped Manavar 'Ali Khan's allowance. Sarfaráz 'Ali Khán, the deceased's grandson, was then pressed to give a relinquishment on condition of receiving a zi-hakka pension; giving way to other's advice, he went and filed a rázináma in the Collector's Office.

Khuda Dád Khán, the husband of Daulat Khátun, quarrelled with his wife because she asked him to pay the usual visits of ceremony to the ruling Nawáb, Ahmad Khán (1750-1771). He left his home and went to the Dakhin, whence he kept up a correspondence by letter but never returned. There, in a city when Patháns dwell called Kirpá Khund or Kirya Khund (?), he married again. His son by that wife married the daughter of Wáhid 'Ali Khán Bangash of the same city, a man of high position. Although Khuda Dád Khán in the war with Holkar and Daulat Rám Sendhia had his shin bone injured by a bullet, he insisted on riding and refused to mount an elephant or take to a palki. Daulat Rám to honour him styled him Nawáb Sáhib, but he objected alleging that at Farrukhábád that title was given to slaves. Daulat Rám then addressed him as Sáhib." Khairáti Khán Bangash, Sher Muhammad Khán, Najíb ’Ali Khán, Nawáb Abd-ul-Karim Khán and Mír Nawáb were serving under Sendhia at that time.

Khán

10. Asálat Khátun, wife of Bangash Khán, full sister of 'Atá-ullah Khán (No. 20), and mother of Wali Muhammad Khán.

11. (Name unknown), wife of Yúsaf Khán and full sister to Mansúr 'Ali Khán (No. 13). She had no children.

12. Kámila Khánum, the wife of Murád Khán (Maşalle) Bangash, son of the uncle of 'Inayat 'Ali Khán above-named (husband of Nos. 2 and 3). She had no full brother. She was the mother of Khairáti Khán Bangash. Her husband's family was as follows :