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spelling, Chhatra, or Chhatar, Sál. The father's began 1st Rabí II., 1151 (18th July, 1738) and name was Champat, not Chait, Ráe. Chhatar Sal's ended 30th Rabi' I., 1152 (6th July, 1739). The earlier career is ignored : while the agreement with year 1767 (1181) would be the 7th or 8th year the Marathas took place in 1141 or 1142 A. H. of Shah Alam II. (1728-29-30), not in 1146 (1733-4). Chhatar Sál Page 149, col. 2, Haidar Khán, Mír. The died, not in 1733, but either on the 15th Jamádi correct date of Husain Ali Khan's death is 6th II., 1144 (14th December, 1731 N. S.), or Pús badi Zá'l Hajj, 1132 (8th October, 1720, N. S.) 3, St. 1788 (16th December, 1731 N. S.). He had Page 151. Safdar Jang died 17th Zú'l Hajj. not two only, but some thirteen, ons, most of 1167 (5th October, 1754, N. S.) The year 1753 whom survived him.
is not correct. The date of Dánishmand Khán (A'li's) death Page 159, Hazín. This man died on the 18th (v. u7 was 30th Rabi' 1.. 2192 (28th May, 1710), Jamádí I., 1180 (22nd October, 1767), and thus and not 1120 (1708). His non-completed History 1779 A. D. must be wrong. The year 1779 A.D. went up to the 10th Zú'l Kadh, 1120 (20th corresponds chiefly to 1193 A. H., but includes a January, 1709), that is, nearly to the end of few days of both 1192 and 1194 A. H. Babádur Shah's second year. The author laid part Page 160, Himmat Bahadur. This biography is of it before that emperor, then encamped in the very imperfect, for it entirely ignores the man's Dhár territory, on the 1st Zü'l Kaidh, 1121 (1st earlier history before he went, in 1764 or 1765.
January, 1710). There is an unnecessary repeti- into Bundelkhand. * tion of Dánishmand Khán A'li's life on p. 291, Page 161, Hoshdár Khan. The last sentence where there is also a separate entry of a Nitámat appears disconnected with what goes beforo :
Ali Khan, who is evidently the same person, this is due to a misprint. For that time read the under his previous title.
time, and dele the full stop after "time." Donde Khán (p. 123) was most decidedly not Page 175, 'Ibrat (Mír Ziya-ud-dín). This bio. the son of Ali Muhammad Khán, Rohela. The graphy appears twice on the same page. exact date of his death is the 5th Muharram, 1185 Page 176, Ikhláş Khán is very imperfectly (19th April, 1771).
dealt with. He was a Balli Khatri, originally On p. 143 it is said that the date of 'Imád-ul- named Debí Dás, and was born at Kalánaur in Mulk's death is not known. We give Mr. Keene the Bari Dúáb, about 56 miles N-E of Labor; a choice of several authorities: -(1) Ghulám he died on the 2nd Jamádi II, 1140 (14th January, Husain Khán, author of the Zikr-us-Sair, who was 1728). His first appointment was given him in with Chait Singh near Kálpí at the time, says the the 25th year of Alamgir, 1092-1093 A. H. (1681-2 ex-Wazir died in 1213 A. 11. (14th June, 1798-4th A. D.) It might also have been added that his June, 1799); (2) Mufti Wali-ul-lah, in the Trih-i history of Farrukhsiyar's reign does not appear to Farrukh ibad, gives the 10th Rabi' II., 1215 (lst have come down to us, unless it is identical with September, 1800); (3) in the "Historical Sketch that of Mad, Ia Bán, Ma ní Khán Íjad), Samania wi,
..." (Elinburgh, 1835), p. 84, note, we are of which fragments are extant. The reference told that the Nawab died at Kálpí in 1800. to Kishn Chand is misleading, the only connection
Abd-ul-Kadir Khán, Jáisi, informs ns that when he between the two men being that Kishn Chand was sent up-country on a mission in 1211 AH adopted the nom de guerre of Ikhlás, the Sincere. (1797), be heard that "Imád-ul-Mulk had gone | Page 179. Inayat-ul-lah Khán died on the towards Láhor to visit Zaman Shah, Abdálí. But 21st Rabi' I., 1133 (26th November, 1725), aged the same year the Nawab returned to Kálpi; and 75 years.
Abd-ul-Kadir Khan heard some of his adven-1 Page 186. 'Izzat-ud-Daula. died in Rabi' tures from his own lips, how he landed at Maskat, II., 1162 (March-April, 1749). instead of Jadda, and travelled by land to Mak- Page 187, col. 1. For Jabila every body else ka, and how he returned to India by the port of has Chhabilah. He was hardly a chief, but Bhúj in Kachh. Imád-ul-Mulk was born at an imperial officer without any position apart Narwar, 44 miles south of Gwaliyár, on the 1st from his office. He died in Zú'l Hajj, 1131 Shawwal, 1148 (13th February, 1736); see the work (October November, 1719), on some day before of Mhd. Bakhsh (Ashob), India Office Library, the 25th of that month (7th November, 1719). MS. No. 250, Vol. I. fol. III. b.
Page 188, Ja'far Khán. He died early in Page 145. Girdhar Singh was not a Rájput, zú'l Kadh, 1139 (19th June-18th July, 1727), aged buta Nagar Brahman, and he was killed on the 79 lunar years. His full titles were Mu'taman-ul. 7th Jamádi I, 1141 (8th December, 1728). Mulk, Alá-ud-Daula, J. K., Bahadur, Nasiri,
Page 149, Hafiz-ul-lah. The year 1767 (1181 Násir Jang. It is rather misleading to talk of A, H.) was not the 21st of Mhd. Sháb, who died in his dynasty (if dynasty there were), seeing that 1748 (116) A. H.) That monarch's 21st year the fourth person in the list, 'Alíwirdí Khán,
