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2 tibeni-lU to death. This act of violence, accompanied, it is said,
3 with treachery, prodiiced an op«n rev^M, and ended in the expaUaD
4 of Abfloolniibhpp trom Sind.
5 Timour Shaiih, after some itnavailing attempts to restore him, con*
6 ferred on him the government of Leia, as an indc rnnitv for Sind, and
7 formally invested tlie chief of the Talpoorees with the government
8 of that province. Abdoolnubbee repaid the Sha«h*s boniiLy by re-
9 belling in his new province, was defeated by the royal troops, and
10 ended his days in poverty at Dera Haiyie Khaiin in Upper iKnd.
11 The Talpoomes have remained m poMeaoon of Sind ever ainoe Ids
12 eKpubioo*
13 At the time of the last miuioii to &adif the gommnent mi in the
14 hands of three brothers, who had divided lihe oountiy into three
15 unequal ahmtet, but who lived in the same house, and transacted all
16 affairs in concert. Meer Gholaum Ali, the eldest of these, in whose
17 hands the diief direction of the state had been placed, has since died»
18 but a new settlement has been effected without any tumult or blood-
19 shed. A small portion of the province still remains in the hands of
20 Meer Tarra, a connection or rlrpondont of the house of Calhora.
21 The three chiefs of the Talpoorees are called tlie Meers, or Amee»
22 • (commanders), of Sind. They rule in tlie name of the King of
23 Caubul, and arc appointed to their government by his letters patent;
24 but as they are Sheeahs, ami as they owe their government more to
25 their own force than to their prince's favour, they are heartily disaf-
26 fected to tfaeDoorannee state. Hiey ought to pay a reremie <^
27 IfSOf^OOO rupees annually to the royal tteasuiy^ but since the troo*
28 falsB in the kingdom of Caubn], they hxre generally withheld it» un-
29 less when in immediate fear of the royal armies. Shauh fiSngau was
30 only aUe to obtain &^ ladn fer the revenue of the year before I
31 was at Pediawer ; the rest he aUowed to be deducted on pretence of
32 bad sea.sons. Even this sum was not paid till the King reached the
33 fiontiers of Sind ; but his army, including the Beloches under M^-
34 mood Khaun, did not on that occasion exceed eight thousand men.
35 J bnagitte that they are more submissive to Shauh Mahmood.
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