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 MÀN 469 fierce Pathán hatched another of those rebellions with which the history of Mánikpur is rife. We pass over the rebellion of the Afghán chiefs, the defeat of Humáyún, and other matters which belong to the history of India. Marriage of the king's daughter with Shah Qúsim of Mánikpur..--The next year, 937 Hijri (A. D. 1540), Sher Shah was informed that Khizr Khan Sherwani, his deputy in the government of Bengal, had contracted a marriage with the daughter of his old enemy, Mahmud Shah, and late king of Bengal, and, besides other signs of disaffection, that he had openly commenced to assert his independence. Sher Shah determined at once to get out for Bengal, and on his way thither he encamped at Karra, where he married his daughter, the Princess Bíbi Saleha, to Shah Qásim, a descendant of the celebrated Hisám-ud-dín, and, at the same time, desired his son-in-law to accompany him on his expedition to Bengal. Shah Qasim, liowever, excused himself the scor of his religious but he recommended to the king's favourable notice a person of unblameable life and one like-minded with himself, Qázi Fazl. Accordingly Sher Shah, accompanied by Qázi Faz], set out for Gaur. The rebellious Khizr Khan was seized and imprisoned, and the terrritory of Bengal being split-up into several small governorships, Qázi Fazl was appointed by the king to act as governor-general. Tomb of the Princess.—The Princess Bíbi Saleha, alias Sulaiman Khátúa, died at Mánikpur, where her tomb, and that of her busband, are to be seen carefully preserved in the “ Abáta-i-Khanqáh." In 1563, under Akbar, Karra Mánikpur was given to Kamál Khan, to guard it as a frontier post against the rebellious chief of Jaun- pur. In 1564 he was removed, and the famous Asaf Khan was appointed lord of Mánikpur. In 1865 he moved to the south to Garra just as Jalál- ud-din had marched from Mánikpur to the conquest of the Dekkan, and Azam Humayun to Gwalior, and just as success and vast plunder had inspired those chiefs with the idea of rebellion, so did the conquest of Garra near Jubbalpore, with its heroic queen and 1,500 elephants, tempt Asaf Khan to treason. He joined with Zamán Khan, Bahadur Khan, and others in a rebellion which lasted for seven years, and which was the last serious attempt to revive the ancient sovereignty of Jaunpur. The close of the struggle occured at Mánikpur. The emperor was at Agra when he heard that the rebels were besieging Mánikpur. He marched at once, crossed at Kanauj, and continued to advance rapidly and reached Rae Bareli. Alarmed at such promptitude, as well as by the rumours of the vast force accompanying Akbar, the rebels raised the siege, and crossing the river encamped on the opposite shore. When Akbar arrived at Mánikpur it was night; not a boat was to be had; and being the rainy season the river was fearfully swollen. Nothing daunted, and mounted on his famous elephant, Sundar (the beautiful) he 60