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 Chaghta 76 Chand seven montlis before his brother in the month of June, 1241 A. I)., Zi-Ka'da, 638 A. H. Karachar Nawian, who ■was tlie fifth ancestor of Amir Taimur, was one of his Amirs, and, at length, captain general of all his forces. The dynasty that founded the so-called '•'Moghul Em- pire" of India was named after Chaghtai. Chaghta Sultan, ij^^-^*" ^^-^^ a handsome young man of the tribe of the Mughals and favorite of the emperor Babar Shah. He died at Kabul in 1546 A. D., 953 A. H. Chait Singh, ^^i-^, son of Balwant Singh, a raja or zamindar of Banaras. He succeeded his father in 1770 A. D. In August 1781 demands were made upon him, by the Governor-General, for additional tribute to be paid to the Company, as the sovereign power now requiring assistance in its exigency. The raja declined, pleading willingness, but inability. He was seized by Mr. Hastings' order, at Banaras ; a revolt took place in his behalf on the 20th August ; nearly two companies of sepoys and their officers were destroyed, — and the raja escaped in the confusion. The Governor- General imme- diately assumed control of the province ; and troops were called in to oppose the raja, who now headed the numbers flocking to his support. He was defeated at Latffpiir — and lastly, his stronghold of Bijaigurh was seized, and his family plundered by a force under Major Popham, The raja had fled, on his reverses at Latifpur, to Bundel- khand. His government was declared vacant, and the zamindari bestowed on the next heir, a nephew of the raja, a minor. After these transactions at iJanaras, the Governor- General proceeded to Audh, to obtain an ad- justment of the heavy debts due to the Company by the Wazfr 'Asaf-ud-daula. The territories of the Begams, (one, the mother of Shuja'-ud-daula, the late Nawab — the other, the mother of the Wazir) were seized, on a charge of aiding the insurrection of Chait Singh. The raja found an asylum in Gwaliar for 29 years, and died there on the 29th March, 1810 A. D. The lands were transferred to a collateral branch of the family, the present representa- tive of which is named Kaja Udat Narain. See Balwant Singh. His estates, with title of Kaja, were presented to his nephew Babd Muhip jSfarain, grandson of Raja Balwant Singh. Chand, '^'^^^ or Chand, called also Trikala, from his sup- posed prophetic spirit, was a celebrated Hindu poet or bard. He flourished towards the close of the twelfth cen- tury of the Christian era. He may be called the poet laureate of Prithiraj, the Chauhan emperor of Dehlf who, in his last battle with Shahab-uddin Ghori, was taken prisoner, and conveyed to Ghaznf, where his bard, Chand, followed him. Both perished by their own hands, after causing the death of their implacable foe, Shahab-uddin. Like the Greek bard, Homer, countries and cities have contended for the honor of having been the place of birth of this the most popular poet of the Hindus. Dehli, Kanauj, Mahoba, and the Panjab, assert their respective claims, but his own testimony is decisive, whence it ap- pears that he was a native of Labor. In his ' Prithiraj Chauhan Rasa," when enumerating some of the heroes, fi-iends and partizans of his hero, he says, " Niddar was bom in Kanauj, Siluk and Jait, the father and son, at Abu ; in Mundava the Parihar, and in Kurrik Kangra the Haoli Rao, in Nagor, Balbhaddar, and Chand, the bard, at Labor." Chand Saudagar, j^^Cij^ '^^■^ a Bangali merchant. Chand, '^'W, vide Teik Chand. Chanda Kunwar, JJ^^ t"^^, the wife of Maharaja Kharag Singh of Labor. jChanda, ^ 2^* l**^, also called Mah-lika, a dancing girl, or queen of Haidarabad, was a poetess of much taste and merit. She is the author of a Dfwan which was revised by Sher Muhammad Khan Iman. In the year 1799 A. D., in the midst of a dance, in which she bore the chief part, she presented a British officer with a copy of her poems, accompanied with the following complimentary observations, in the form of the usual gazal : — Since my heart drank from the cup of a fascinating eye, I wonder beside myself, like one whom wine bewilders. Thy searching glances leave nothing unseated ; Thy face, bright as flame, consumes my heart. Thou soughtest a Nazar : I offer thee my head ; Albeit thy heart is not unveiled to me. My eyes fixed on thy lineaments — emotion agitates my soul, Fresh excitement beats impatient in my heart. All that Chanda asks is, that, in either world. Thou wouldst preserve the ashes of her heart by thy side. Garcin de Tassy informs us that there is a copy of her Diwan in the East India House Library, which she her- self presented to Captain Malcolm on the 1st of Octo- ber, 1799 A. D. Chanda Sahib, y^'^ 1*^^ surname of Husain Dost Khan, a relation of Dost 'AH Khan, Nawab of Arcot, whose daughter he had married. He had made his way to the highest offices of the government by the services of his sword, and was esteemed the ablest soldier that had of late years appeared in the Carnatic. He inveigled the queen of Trichinopoly, and got possession of the city in 1736 A. D. He was taken prisoner by the Marhattas on the 26th March, 1741 A. D., and imprisoned in the fort of Sitara, but was released by the aid of Mons. Dupleix in 1748, and appointed Nawab of the Carnatic by Muzafiar Jang. He was put to death in 1752 A. D., 1st Sha'ban, 1165 A. H. by the Marhattas, and his head sent to Mu- hammad 'All Khan who was made Nawab of Arcot by the English, who treated it with ignominy. Chandar Bhan, t:;*"^ niW-)'^^, a Brahman of Pati- ala, well-versed in the Persian language, was employed as a Munshi in the service of the prince Dara Shikoh, the eldest son of the emperor Shah Jahan. He is the author of several Persian works, viz. : " Guldasta," " Tuhfat-ul- Anwar," " Tuhfat-ul-Fus-ha," " Majma'-ul-Fukra," one entitled " Char Chaman," another called " Macshat Brah- man" being a collection of his own letters written to dif- ferent persons, and also of a Diwan in which he uses the title of Brahman for his poetical name. After the tragical death of his employer, he retii-ed to Banaras where he died in the year 1662 A. D., 1073 A H. He had also built a house at Agra, of which no traces now remain. Chand Bibi (Sultana), Lr'»,s- '^^^'^> was the daughter of Husain Nizam Shah I of Ahmadnagar in the Dakhan, sister to Murtaza Nizam Shah, and wife of 'All 'Adil Shah I, of Bijapur. After the death of her husband in 1680 A. D., 988 A. H., she had been queen and dowager-regent of the neighbouring kingdom of Bijapur during the mi- nority of her nephew Ibrahim 'Adil Shah II, and was one of the most able politicians of her day. The Mughals under prince Murad, the son of Akbar, proceeded in November, 1595 A. D., Rabf II, 1004 A. H., and besieged Ahmadnagar for some months, while Chand Sultana de- fended the place with masculine resolution. At the same time there being a scarcity of provisions in the Mughal camp, the prince and Khan-Khanan thought it advisable to enter into a treaty with the besieged. It was stipulated by Chand Bibi that the prince should keep possession of Berar, and that Ahmadnagar and its dependencies, should remain with her in the name of Bahadur, the grandson of Burhan Shah. She was put to death by the Dakhanis in the year 1699 A. D., 1008 A. H.