Item CR9/29/8 - Letter from Mukarram Khan to Saif al-Daulah

Date(s) from item: Reg. yr 8, RabiII 26 sent; Jumada I 23 received: October 28 received I have already sent replies to your letters and a letter from Nawab Sabitjang Bahadur. After taking leave from you for ten days I reached Bareilly from Pelibhat to look after the administration of the city. Here I found a contingent of Nawab Qasim Ali Khan's army had already arrived there. He had sent a letter inviting me to come to Hifz Jhandi for a night. As I could not accept this invitation without the permission of my master I wrote to him from Bareilly giving details of the state of affairs there. In reply to my letter I was told to accept the above invitation and then return to Pelibhat to report so that he could consult with you regarding future action When I arrived to see the Nawab Qasim Ali Khan on 27 Rabi II and tried to find out the reason for his action I discovered that he had given fifty thousand rupees to Maulavi Ghulam Jilani, twenty five thousand rupees to Mihr Khan, son of Yahya Sardar Khan, and to other Jamadars. A bank draft of forty thousand rupees has been sent to Sa'adat Khan Afridi and Murtaza Khan in Shahjahanabad so that they can raise an army of ten thousand foot soldiers and horsemen and bring it here as soon as possible. Badal Khan has been summoned to Sanbar. The Afghans are increasingly rioting everywhere. I was informed by Najib al-Daulah and Duvaid Khan that they have received letters from Rajah Balabdahr informing that the Nawab had arrived there with his army and there was going to be trouble. Meanwhile, Mir Inayat Allah Khan, son of the Nawab, has arrived at Bareilly from Pelibhat so that he could prevent his father the Nawab from taking any action. Meanwhile, the Nawab's son asked me to summon Shah Sidq Ali from Hifzjhandi and question him and then go to Bareilly. Therefore, today, Thursday 27 Rabi` II he will be arriving at Bareilly