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2 submitted to the Sultan’s authority, and gave his daughter to him in marriage.
3 Mobarak Khan was the last of the family, who died in peace in Shekarpur in 1726
4 A.D. His successor Sadiq Muhammad Khan, the founder of the present monarchy,
5 after repeated invasions by Khodayér Khan Khilora, was compelled to abandon
6 Shekarpur, and, with all his family, settled in a place called Bet Dabli, now in the Dera
7 Ghazi Khan District, By the force of his arms he reduced to obedience many tribes
8 living in the neighbourhood of Uch, and Nawab Hayadtulléh Khan the Moghal
9 Governor of Multin granted to him the lease of the Pargana of Choudhri now in
10 the Kardaré of Khanpur. He also founded Allahabad and other towns and reclaimed
11 a great area of waste land.
12 Daétid Khan, after whose name the Daddputras are called, was the twelfth in
13 descent from Abbas. The Purjani, named after Purji Khan, alias Feroz Khan, is a
14 clan of this tribe, from whom his present Highness is descended. The descendants
15 of the tribes who migrated to Bahdwalpur with Sadiq Mahommed Khan, the first
16 Nawab, have spread throughout the Bahawalpur territory, and bear the names of their
17 respective ancestors, such ag Marufanis, or descendants of Méruf Khan, Arbanis of
18 Arib Khan, Golanis of Gil Mahomed Khan, Achranis of Achar Khan, and so forth,*
19 Nawab Bahéwal Khan rendered excellent service to the British Government in
20 the siege of Multdn, in 1847-48, and was rewarded by the grants of the districts
21 of Sabzal Kot and Bhoung, together with a life pension of one lakh of rupees per
22 annum. He was a staunch ally of the British, and entered into an alliance with
23 that power so far back as 1809, by which, while retaining independent jurisdiction
24 within his own borders, he acknowledged the supremacy of the British Government,
25 Aé the close of 1852, Bahdwal Khan died, and in accordance with a wish expressed
26 by him previous to his death, his third son, Saddat Khan, succeeded to the chief-
27 ship. The Datdputras, the dominant clan in Bahdwalpur, headed by Haji Khan,
28 eldest son of the late Nawab, however, disputed his succession, Sa&dat Khan was
29 deposed, and brought to Lahore with his family. The successful chief, Haj Khan,
30 was recognised by the Governor-General in Council, and received a khilat of inves-
31 titure. Saddat Khan, no longer remembering the condition from which he had been
32 rescued by the British intercession, aspired to the recovery of his power, and had
33 even the effrontery to solicit the interference of the British Government in his behalf,
34 He was placed under arrest in the Summan Burj Palace of the fort, and was informed
35 that he would not be released until the Government was satisfied as to his future
36 good behaviour. The ex-nawéb died in 1862. Four years after, Haji Khan, the
37 reigning nawéb, died, and was succeeded by his son, Sidiq Mahommed Khan, the
38 present ruler, .
39 After a long minority, SAdiq Mahommed Khan was invested with ruling powers on
40 28th November, 1879. The British Government had, during the period of the
41 Nawab’s minority, taken the management of the country into their own hands, at
42 the earnest and repeated request of the leading chiefsiof Bahawalpur, the coun-
43 sellors and ministers of the Nawab, and the members of his own famliy. The State
44 for years, had been a prey to anarchy. The revenue, which could not be collected in
45 1865, rose, in the next year of settled rule, to 14 lakhs, and had reached the annual
46 average of 20 lakhs, when charge of the administratiron was made over to the Nawab.
47 Roads, bridges and public buildings had been constructed, ancient canals had been
48 enlarged and repaired and new ones dug ; while a quarter of a million of acres had
49 been added to the irrigated area, The British Government administered the estate of
50 its ward carefully and wisely, and took great care in educating the chief so as to imbue
51 him with ideas essential to success as the ruler of an important Mahomedan State.
52 Sir Robert Egerton, to whom is justly due the credit of giving the Nawab an excel-
53 lent training, and of devising schemes which materially tended to the prosperity
54 of his State, thus expressed his opinion, in regard to this chief :—
55 The Lientenant-Governor trusts that the young Nawdb of Bahawalpur, who possesses
56 many excellent, generous and manly qualities, may have the strength and courage to resist
57 the influence of evil counsellors, and, by the just rule of his territory, may sufficiently repay
58 the Government for the care which has been for so many years expended on it.
59 These expectations were fully realized. During the Afghan campaign of 1878-80,
60 * Vide the Doulati Abbasia, a manuscript history of Bahawalpur.
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