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 BALLABGARH TAHSIL AND TOWN.

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towards the Oxus. lost

All the water of the river on which Balkh stands

is

long before reaching that stream.

—On

History.

the death of Nadir Shah,

the territories of Balkh to Haji

Khan,

Ahmad Shah

Durani gave His son

a soldier of fortune.

succeeded him, but the inhabitants were encouraged to revolt by the Timiir Shah Durani then marched an army and of Bokhara. reduced the place. After his death, Shah Murad of Bokhara laid siege From 1793 to 1826 Balkh to the city in 1793, but did not take it. IMurad Beg of Kunduz held remained under Afghan government. temporary authority for two years from 1826, when, being dispossessed by the Amir of Bokhara, he carried with him a large number of the

Amir

inhabitants

people his territories to the

to

east.

Balkh was then

named Eshan Khoja; about 1838 he was recalled, but Balkh still remained under Bokhara till 1841, when the Mir Wali of Khulm captured Balkh in the name of Shah Shuja. At the desire of the British Resident he restored From this time to ist February 1850, it is not clear under whose it. authority Balkh was, but it is probable that neither the Amir of Bokhara, nor the Wali of Khulm, did more than claim sovereignty over it, and In February 1850, the city was constantly threatened by both. Muhammad Akram Khan, Barakzai, captured Balkh, and from that time to the present it has remained under Afghan rule. Ballabgarh. The southern tahsU of Delhi District, Punjab area, placed under the government of a deputy of Bokhara

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388 square miles; population (1881) 138,878, of whom 108,291 are Hindus. Land revenue of the tahsil (1883) ^20,943. The administrative staff consists of a tahsilddr and munsif, who preside over i civil

and

strength

2

criminal courts.

of regular

police,

Number of police circles (thdnds), 6 men; number of village watchmen



129

{chauk'iddrs), 280.

—Town

in Delhi District, Punjab; head-quarters of and former capital of a Native State situated on the Muttra road, 21^ miles from Delhi city, in lat. 28° 20' n., long. 77° 21' 30" E. The population, which in 1868 numbered 6281 persons, had in 1881, as shown by the Census, decreased to 5821, made up as Hindus, 4464; Muhammadans, 1320; and Jains, 37. follows: Number of inhabited houses, 924. Originally held by Taga Brahmans, but acquired by purchase or force about 1740 by a Jat adventurer, whose grandson, Ajit Singh, obtained the title of Raja from Nawab Najaf Khan. The Raja’s son, Bahadur Singh, was confirmed in his

Ballabgarh.

Ballabgarh

tahsil,



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by Lord Lake, after the British conquest in 1803. He also acquired the pargand of Pili Pakal in 1805 as a grant for life, in return for police services on the Delhi and Palwal road ; and this grant was continued to his successor up till the year 1827, when the Magistrate of estates

Delhi undertook the management of the police.

Raja Nahar Singh, the