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 BARE ILL K

140 for

bond of 40

a

by which the Marathas were induced to This bond the Rohillas were unable to meet,

lakhs,

evacuate Rohilkhand.

whereupon Shuja-ud-daula, after getting rid of the Marathas, attacked Rohilkhand with the help of an English force lent by Warren Hastings, and subjugated it by a desolating war. Hafiz Rahmat was slain, but Faiz-ulla, the son of Ali ISIuhammed, escaped to the north-west and became the leader of the Rohillas. After many negotiations he effected a treaty with Shuja-ud-daula in 1774, by which he agreed to keep 9 pargands and 15 lakhs a year, giving up all the remainder of Rohilkhand to the AVazi'r (see Rampur). Saadat Ali was appointed governor of Bareilly under the Oudh Government. The District remained in the hands of the Wazfr until 1801, when Rohilkhand, Allahabad, and Korah were ceded to the British in lieu of tribute. Mr. Henry Wellesley, brother of the Governor-General, was appointed President of the Board of Commissioners sitting at Bareilly. In 1805, Amir Khan, a Rohilla adventurer, made an inroad into Rohilkhand, but was driven off. Disturbances occurred in 1816, in 1837, and in 1842, but the peace of the District was not seriously endangered until the Mutiny of 1857. In that year, the troops at Bareilly rose on the 31st of May. The European officers, except three, escaped to Naini Tal; and Khan Bahadur Khan, Hafiz Rahmat’s grandson, was proclaimed Nawab Nazim of Rohilkhand. On the nth of June, the mutinous soldiery went off to Delhi, and Khan Bahadur organized a government in July. Three expeditions attempted to attack Naini Tal, but without success. At the beginning of November came news of the fall of Delhi. AValidad Khan, the rebel leader in Bulandshahr, and the

Nawab

A

of Fatehgarh then took refuge at Bareilly.

fourth expedition

met with no greater success than the earlier attempts. On the 25th of March 1858, the Nana Sahib arrived at Bareilly on his flight from Oudh, and remained till the end of April but when the commander-in-chief marched on Jalalabad he fled back again into Oudh. On the fall of Lucknow, Firoz Shah retired to Bareilly, and took Moradabad on the 22nd of April, but was compelled to give it up again

against Naini Tal



at once.

him

The Nawab

in the

city,

so

together in Bareilly

The

city

into

Oudh.

of Najibabad, leader of the Bijnaur rebels, joined that the

was taken on the

Population

.

inhabitants in

— An

principal

insurgents were congregated

when the English army and

all

enumeration

in

7th,

Bareilly District

arrived

on the 5th of May. Khan Bahadur

the chiefs fled with

1853 returned

at 1,316,830.

the

number

The Census

of

of 1872

returned the population on an area of 2982 square miles at 1,507,139, or after allowing for the diminished area caused by the creation of Pilibhit into a separate District, 1,015,041.

returned

a

total

population of

The

latest

Census in i88r

1,030,936, showing an

increase

of