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Wazir of Ayub, and Shah Shuja, hard pressed, sought safety among some friendly clans in the Khaibar hills. He was driven thence at the end of two months, and had scarcely entered Shikarpur when Muhammad Azim Khan's approach compelled him to retire. He went first to Khairpur, and afterwards to Hyderabad, and, having procured some money from the Sindians, he returned and recovered Shikarpur, where he resided for a year. But Muhammad Azim Khan again approached, the Hyderabad chiefs pretended that the Shah was plotting to bring in thvi English, and their money
1821-2.
Ludhiana, 1821;
and is
by
Shah Zaman, who takes up his
abode
at the sElme
place.
Appa Sahib, exRaja of I'Tagpur,
1820-2.
His idle
schemes wtih the son of Shah Zaman.
The ex-king, finding his position untenable, retired through RaJputana to Delhi, and eventually took up his residence a second time at Ludhiana, in June 1821. His brother, the blind Shah Zaman, after visiting Persia, and perhaps Arabia, arrived at the same place about the samo time and nearly by the same road. Shah Shuja's stipend had all along been drawn by his family, represented by the able and faithful Wafa Begum, and an
was this time paid for his expulsion.
The Shah returns to
followed
CHAP. VI
allowance, first of 18,000, and afterwards of 24,(!00 rupees a year, was assigned for the support of Shah Zaman, when he also became a petitioner to the English Government.^ In the year 1820, Appa Sahib, the deposed Raja of the Maratha kingdom of Nagpur, escaped from the custody of the British' authorities and repaired to Amritsar. He would seem to have had the command of large sums of money, and he endeavoured to engage Ranjit Singh in his cause; but the Maharaja had been told the fugitive was the violent enemy of his English The allies, and he ordered him to quit his territories. chief took up his abode for a time in Sansar Chand's principality of Katotch, and while there he would appear to have entered into some idle schemes with Prince Haidar, a son of Shah Zaman, for the subjugation of India south and east of the Sutlej. The Durrani was to be monarch of the whole, frorn Delhi to Cape Comorin; but the Maratha was to be Wazir of the empire, and to hold the Deccan as a dependent sovereign. 1 Cf. Shah Shuja's 'Autobiography', chaps, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, in the Calcutta Monthly Journal for 1839, and the Bahawalpur Family Annals (Manuscript). Capt. Murray (History of Ranjit Singh, p. 103) merely states that Shah Shuja made an unsuccessful attempt to recover his throne; but the following letters may be referred to in support of all that is included in the paragraph Government to Resident, Delhi, 10th May and 7th June 1817; Capt. Murray to Resident, Delhi, 22nd Sept. and 10th Oct. 1818, and 1st April 1825; and Capt. Murray to Sir D. Ochteilony, 29th April, 30th June, and 27th Aug. 1821. :
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148
Wazir of Ayub, and Shah Shuja, hard pressed, sought safety among some friendly clans in the Khaibar hills. He was driven thence at the end of two months, and had scarcely entered Shikarpur when Muhammad Azim Khan's approach compelled him to retire. He went first to Khairpur, and afterwards to Hyderabad, and, having procured some money from the Sindians, he returned and recovered Shikarpur, where he resided for a year. But Muhammad Azim Khan again approached, the Hyderabad chiefs pretended that the Shah was plotting to bring in thvi English, and their money
1821-2.
Ludhiana, 1821;
and is
by
Shah Zaman, who takes up his
abode
at the sElme
place.
Appa Sahib, exRaja of I'Tagpur,
1820-2.
His idle
schemes wtih the son of Shah Zaman.
The ex-king, finding his position untenable, retired through RaJputana to Delhi, and eventually took up his residence a second time at Ludhiana, in June 1821. His brother, the blind Shah Zaman, after visiting Persia, and perhaps Arabia, arrived at the same place about the samo time and nearly by the same road. Shah Shuja's stipend had all along been drawn by his family, represented by the able and faithful Wafa Begum, and an
was this time paid for his expulsion.
The Shah returns to
followed
CHAP. VI
allowance, first of 18,000, and afterwards of 24,(!00 rupees a year, was assigned for the support of Shah Zaman, when he also became a petitioner to the English Government.^ In the year 1820, Appa Sahib, the deposed Raja of the Maratha kingdom of Nagpur, escaped from the custody of the British' authorities and repaired to Amritsar. He would seem to have had the command of large sums of money, and he endeavoured to engage Ranjit Singh in his cause; but the Maharaja had been told the fugitive was the violent enemy of his English The allies, and he ordered him to quit his territories. chief took up his abode for a time in Sansar Chand's principality of Katotch, and while there he would appear to have entered into some idle schemes with Prince Haidar, a son of Shah Zaman, for the subjugation of India south and east of the Sutlej. The Durrani was to be monarch of the whole, frorn Delhi to Cape Comorin; but the Maratha was to be Wazir of the empire, and to hold the Deccan as a dependent sovereign. 1 Cf. Shah Shuja's 'Autobiography', chaps, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, in the Calcutta Monthly Journal for 1839, and the Bahawalpur Family Annals (Manuscript). Capt. Murray (History of Ranjit Singh, p. 103) merely states that Shah Shuja made an unsuccessful attempt to recover his throne; but the following letters may be referred to in support of all that is included in the paragraph Government to Resident, Delhi, 10th May and 7th June 1817; Capt. Murray to Resident, Delhi, 22nd Sept. and 10th Oct. 1818, and 1st April 1825; and Capt. Murray to Sir D. Ochteilony, 29th April, 30th June, and 27th Aug. 1821. :
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