Muntakhab al-tawarikh 46: The Author's Lands.

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[Text, vol. ii. p. 368.] In A.H. 996 the King called to mind something about the book which I was then translating, and directed Hakím Abú-l Fath to give me a horse, a shawl, and some other presents. He then observed to Sháh Fathu-lla 'Azdu-d daulah, that the whole of Basáwar had been granted to him in jágír, with all its ayma land, and that as I, a native of Badáún, had thus lost my madad-má'sh land, His Majesty had conferred upon me some of equal value in Badáún, in lieu of it. Sháh Fathu-lla then presented in a bag an offering of 1000 rupees, which, by exactions and other most oppressive means, his agents had recovered from the wretched widows and orphans of Basáwar ; and upon his representing that his officers had collected this surplus from the ayma lands (fraudulently alienated from the public rent-roll), the King told him to retain the money for himself. Three months after this the Sháh died, and when my farmán was engrossed, I took leave for a year, went first to Basawar, and then to Badaun, from which place I wished to make a journey to Gujarat, to see Mirza Nizamu-d din Ahmad, but delays occurred to prevent my carrying this intention into effect.