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 470 MAN plunged into the Ganges accompanied by only a squadron of horse. А rumour was soon afloat in the enemy's canıp that Akbar had crossed the river and was on them. Khan Zamán and his chieftains, who were in the midst of their revels, and probably more than half in their cups, ridiculed the idea, and refused to entertain the notion for a moment. This enabled Akbar to lie perdu till daybreak, when, having been reinforced by bia advance guard, and by the respective troops of Majnun Kákshal and Asaf Khan," he fell upon the hostile camp. The rebels, quite unprepared for so vigorous an onslaught, were utterly routed and dispersed. Khan Zamán was killed in action by an elephant, who dashed him to the ground with his trunk and trampled him to death, while his brother, Bahadur Khan, was taken prisoner. Brought before Akbar, there is every reason to believe that his life would yet have been spared, but so infuriated were the bystanders, that before Akbar could interpose, Bahadur Khan lay a corpse at his feet. Thus terminated, we may say at Manikpur, this famous seven years' rebellion of the Uzbak chiefs. Division of the empire into subahs.—Before the close of the glorious reign of Akbar the empire was divided into fifteen subahs or provinces viz., Allahabad, Agra, Oudh, Ajmere, Gujarát, Behár, Bengal, Delhi, Kábul, Lahore, Mooltan, Málwa, Berár, Kándeish, and Ahmadnagar. This arrange- ment diminished the importance of Mánikpur, which was thenceforward included in subah Allahabad, as one of its component sarkárs. Mr. King has been at the pains of furnishing an extract from the Aín-i-Akbari, which in a somewhat more detailed form, together with his accompanying remarks, I shall make no apology for introducing here, as they fitly pertain to a history of so celebrated a place as Mánikpur, which was formerly the most important town of the district, if not of the province. Extract from Mr. King's report.--A reference to Elliott's glossary, under the word 'dastúr,' will show that so recently as Akbar's time many parganas existed which cannot be traced now; and that many now exist which are not named in the various sarkárs into which that emperor divid- ed his dominions. territory at the time when the author wrote; and this will account for the absence of the Sarkár Mánikpur, which embraced all the land now in the Partabgarh district. “A manuscript copy of the Sín-i-Akbari has enabled me to give some details of the territorial division in Akbar's time :-- "Extract from the Aín-i-Akbari which relates to the revenue arrange- ments of the Partabgarh district, Sarkár Mánikpur, Subab Allahabad. Mánikpur wben it was besieged. It seeme more probable that he was at that time resident at Karra. to Jaunpur, in which city they were dragged through the streets tied to the legs of an elephant.
 * The glossary omits detailed mention of all lands which were not British
 * It is doubtful whether Asaf Khan was with Msjnín Kátshal within the walls of
 * The heads of the two brothers were sent to the Punjab and Kábul, and the bodies