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6 the ame race as the Nabobs of Moorhadabad. He was appointed Subadar in a battalion of Seapoys commanded by Captain Adams, a company of which under his command was quartered at a mall dirict not many miles from Patna, called Tarchpoor, an inconiderable fort, built on the ide of a little river that takes its rie a few miles up the country. Here he was tationed in order to keep this fort.

In the year 1769, a great dearth overpread the country about Tarchpoor, Where the Rajas' Boudmal, and his brother Corexin reided, which they took advantage of by pretending it was impoible for them to remit the tipulated plies