Later Mughals v1.c8.s12.8

v1.c8.s12.8

an offer of a *mansab* of 3,000 *zat*, 2,000 horse, the title of Rajah, robes of honour, a standard and kettle-drums (the last three having been brought with the Prince from Dihli). After this offer was refused, they demanded all the treasure which had come from Bengal and all the money in the imperial chest. Chabela Ram prevaricated and ceased his visits. Much disconcerted at this failure, Azz-ud-din continued his route. The faujdars followed with their own troops, march by march, but pitched their camps two miles or more from the main army. It was now quite obvious to the Prince's advisers that Chabela Ram would seize the earliest opportunity to make his escape. Accordingly, when they were at Khajwa, Lutfullah Khan (then known as Sarfaraz Khan) was sent at the head of their best troops with a request that Chabela Ram would move his camp close to theirs, or that, in compliance with a written order from Jahandar Shah, then first produced, he should march into Oudh, to which Government he was thereby appointed. Chabela Ram accepted the second alternative. Next day, giving out that he wished to bathe in the Ganges, and would thence continue his road to Oudh, he moved to the river bank at the Khamsara ferry, some five miles from Khajwa. He was still trying to find out the easiest road to Allahabad, when spies brought word that Farrukh-siyar's camp was not further off than two or three marches, and the news was to him "as a rain cloud to a thirsty man in a desert." At early dawn he made a forced march and soon joined Frrukh-siyar.[*] Chabela Ram and his nephew, Mahta Girdhar Lal, were received with honour, their offerings accepted, and gifts conferred on them. Ali Asghar Khan, too, who had been watching for a chance of escaping, joined Farrukh-siyar at Kunwarpur a few days after Chabela Ram, and shortly afterwards, on payment of five lakhs of Rupees, was made Khan Zaman.