Indian Antiquary Vol 07

SR No.: 032499
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 386
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(1747) he dethroned and expelled Abu'l Faiz, and seized the sovereignty. Issue-two daughters. (1) married to Abdu'l Momin walad Abu'l Faiz, who was murdered by Muhammad Rahim: she had a son. (2) The other daughter had also
a son.
II. Danyal Beg, succeeded his nephew Muhammad Rahim Beg. He had ten sons:
III. (1) Shah Murad Beg, Amir Ma'sum, superseded and succeeded his father, June 1784. (2) Mahmud Beg, living in exile in Khokand in 1818.
(3) 'Umar Beg and (4) Fâzil Beg, put to death with their families by their nephew Amir Haidar Turê.
IV. (4) Sultan Mur&d Beg, died at Maskât on the Haj, 1803. He had three sons (see inf.). (5) Rustam Beg, died at Bukhârâ.
(6) Ganj 'Ali Beg, alive in 1818.
(7) Rajab 'Ali Beg: insane.
(8) Toktumish Beg, died at Kabul in the reign of Timur Shah; i.e. before 1793.
Shah Murad Beg had three sons:
V. Sayyid Haidar Turê, styled A mir Sayyid, succeeded his father Sultan Murad Beg 1803. He had six sons:
(1) Muḥammad Husain, by a Sayyid lady. VI. (2) Bahadur Khan Nasiru'lla succeeded his father 1826. He murdered Stoddart and Conolly. His son
VII. Muzaffar u'd-d'in succeeded him 1860. (3) Abdu'lla, (4) 'Umar,-sons of a slave woman. (5) Zubair.
(6) Jahangir, son of a lady of the Khwajahs of Juibar.
Din Nasir Beg, second son of Sultan Murad Beg (supra), was an exile in Russia in 1818. Muhammad Husain Beg, third son, an exile at Shahr-i Sabz.
Kungusát Dynasty of Khiva.
I. Aḥmad Beg Ink (chief) of the Kungusât' Uzbaks in 1717 (period of Bekovitch Cherkaski's expedition), had at least one son,
II. Muḥammad Amin Beg, succeeded 1755, had sons,
(1) Fazil Beg, blind from disease, was alive in 1818, and
III. (2) 'Iwaz, succeeded his father, died in 1804.
IV (3) Iltazar, succeeded Ivâz; superseded the Khans of the White Bone, under whom his predecessors had been maires du palais, and was the first Kungus&t Khân killed in battle, with Amir Haidar Turê of Bukhârâ.
Haidar Ture was the son of a lady of Abu'l Fair Khan's family, which must have been Sayyid, as he thus styles himself for the first time in the pedigree.
[SEPTEMBER, 1878.
(4) Muhammad Rahim, succeeded Iltazar; was still reigning in 1818.
(5) Niyaz Muhammad and (6) Muḥammad Rizâ, put to death by Muhammad Rahim before 1818.
(7) Jan Murid and (8) Hassan Murad, killed with Iltazar in 1806.
(9) Muhammad Niyaz, died a natural death before 1818. (10) Kutli Murâd, alive in 1818.
Uzbak Dynasty of Khokand.
I. Nar Bata Beg, Uzbak, governed Khokand in the time of Shah Murad of Bukhârâ. Did not strike money or put his name in the khutba subsidized by the Emperor of China. Had three
sons :
II. (1.) 'Alam Beg, succeeded him, struck money and read the khutba in his own name; had one son, Shahrukh, murdered by his uncle 'Umar Beg.
III. (2.) 'Umar Beg, defeated, killed, and succeeded 'Alam Khân. Still reigning in 1818.
3. Rustam Beg, murdered by his brother 'Alam.
Of a different charaster was the pious Shah Murad, our author's own first patron. He was the son of a rough but good-tempered soldier, Dânyål Beg, Amir of Bukhara, who was so lost to all sense of religion that he allowed Persians openly to smoke 'hubble-bubbles' in the court and city. Horrified at this and similar enormities, Shah Murad became the disciple of a Shaikh, who imposed upon him during his novitiate the duties of a bazâr porter. From this point on, his career presents a singular analogy with that of the hypocrite Aurangzib. The penitent waded through blood and intrigue, till he superseded his good-tempered sinner of a father. Onlyto the credit of both be it spoken-the father exacted, and the son kept, an oath not to shed the blood of his brethren. This was an isolated instance of mercy in the history of Shah Murâd, and indeed in the whole book, in which almost every page has its tale of blood or treachery, related as naïvely as the surprise of the Yak calf, and often immediately before or after a general certificate of the virtues of the first murderer. It is not the province of a scientific journal to digress upon the politics of the day, but the student of history may be permitted to regard with satisfaction the fate of these cut-throat little dynasties, which are now falling, one after another, under the heavy hand of a civilized power.
W. F. S.
Kungusât, i... Chestnut Horse, was the name of t great Mongol class under Jinghis Khan, probably inherited from them by the Uzbak tribe.