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JEHANDAR SHAH AGAIN.
[ 1870-71.
by me (with the ill-feeling existing between him and the Naib). 1 ^ Wlltej
and if the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. I employed has written against the Sirdar Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. , I am not to blame it.
ph 7 T bra him arrived on the 29th, was received with all due honor, and
517. Ibrahim arrived on ^ age ^ t wrote * tbat his fatller
* Diary ending 5th February 1871, was quite reconciled to him.
The Ameer’s counsellors being apparently convinced of what the Ameer
himself would not acknowledge, the tyranny of Ins trusted were
not disposed to let the above-mentioned idea of committing the poveinorship ot
Tooikistan to Ahmed Ali fall to the ground. They urged, but ineffectually, ffs
expediency on the 13th, and again on the 24th February, Khndai ^suzur
Khan Governor of Ghnznee, then engaged at Cabul in explaining his accounts,
being sent as Deputy Governor in place of Alum, and the now forgiven Ibrahim
being sent in Khudai Nuzur’s place to Ghuznee.
Alum Khan heard of the attempts to get him removed and wrote to the
Ameer attributing them to the hostility of Syud Reza Khan mentioned in
paragraph 449, as Governor of Akchah-a post which he had left through dis-
i ° 1 gust at Alum s treatment. The Ameer
* Diary ending isth March, asked* him, in reply, whether it was likely
that he would listen to the complaints of others against one in whose favor he
had removed his own son from power.
518 On the 10th November there came news that Jehandar Shah had
o> 0 ne to Yarkund via Kokund. Fearing, therefore, lest he should make an
attempt on Budukshan from that quarter, and that Mahmood Shah, who
was not a man of either experience or ability, would be found incapable of
resistin 0 " him, Alum proposed to summon the latter to Kbondooz, and, with the
help of °Sooltan Moorad Shah of that principality, prepare him to deal with
such an emergency.
519. Occasionally, during the close of this autumn and beginning of
the winter, Alum sent to the Ameer slightly disquieting news of the move-
ments of the Ameer of Bokhara and the Afghan refugees, for which news
there was little, if any, foundation, so
* Diary ending 8th December 1870. that in the diary of 8th December the
British agent remarked—*
“ The Naib (Alum) with a view to appearing zealous and energetic, is in the habit of
sending false news occasionally, which causes apprehension to the Ameer.'”
520. On the 10th January the Ameer heard from Alnm that Meer
Jehandar Shah was in Shignan, ao and that Mahmood Shah had begged the
Meer of that place to drive him out, but had met with an excuse. The Ameer
upon this desired Alum, in concert with the Meers of Budukshan and Koondooz,
to take measures for Jehandar’s expulsion.
The next intelligence (6th March) was that Jehandar Shah was in Chitral,
the Chief of which place was his old ally; that he had manifested some desire to
he reconciled to Ameer Shere Ali, and that Alum had given him the option of
making his submission, or of ceasing his dangerous proximity to the Budukshan
border. In the diary of the 27th April 1871 it is mentioned that Jehandar
Shah had sent over his brother to Alum to sue for forgiveness ; that the Ameer
had said that if be returned to Afghanistan with his family, he would be treated
kindly, and that his people had gone to Kokund to fetch him.
But on the 31st July the Ameer heard from the Meer of Koondooz that as
the Meer of Shignan still harboured Jehandar Shah, Mahmood Shah of
Budukshan had gone to attack him ; and it was rumoured that in this expedi
tion Mahmood Shah bad been worsted.
(a) F. B., in his letter of 30th July 1870, mentioned, Jehandar Shah as being at Tashkund with Abdool Bahmaii.
Sinoe then F. B.’s informant, Baheem Bai, has told him that Jehandar Shah had reached Shignan, travelling
through Samarkand Kokund, Karatageen, and Ilai, and that Alum Khan had been prevented from sending troops
J18717 ° f ^ dl C ^ h ° dangeroua as P ect of affairs in the H ^at quartet—[ Letter from Punjab, 6tl*