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Gazetteer Of Ulwar 1878, 1878
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1Náhar's grandson), with Ahmad Khán and Malik Fakaruddin, who probably belonged to the same family, collected a force within the fort of Ulwur, and defended it so bravely that the imperial commander had to accept a war contribution and return to Dehli.*
3In A.D. 1428, the Emperor again marched to Mewát, and for a time at least subdued the country, obliging the inhabitants to pay him tribute. Rewári is spoken of as being in the hands of a Mewáttí chief.
5In A.D. 1450, Bahlol Lodi acceded to the imperial throne. His first military movement was against Mewát. Ahmed Khán Mewáttí, who held the country "from Mahrauli to Ladhú Sarai," near Dehli, submitted to the imperial force and was deprived of seven "parganahs" (subdivisions of districts), but was permitted to hold the remainder as tributary. Ahmed Khán appointed his uncle Mubáarak Khán to be perpetually in attendance at court as his representative. During Bahlol's struggle with the king of Jaunpur,† Ahmed Khán Mewáttí for a time supported the latter, and his conduct brought him another visit from the Emperor, to whom he was induced to submit. But Bábar tells us that Mewát was not included in the kingdom of Bahlol Lodi, who never really subjected it.‡
7In A.D. 1488 Sikandar Lodi sat upon the throne of Dehli. At this period Tijára was the seat of an Imperial Governor, and a Mewáttí or Khánzáda, Alam Khán, was one of his distinguished officers.§
9In A.D. 1526 a new power appeared in India. Bábar, who claimed to be the representative of Timur Lang, after winning the battle of Pánipat, took possession of Dehli and Agra; and determined that his enterprise should not be a mere raid like Timur's, but the foundation of a new and lasting empire. Then it was that the Rájpúts made their last great struggle for independence. They were led by Rána Sankha, a chief of Mewár, who invited the Mewáttí chief, Hasan Khán, to aid the nation from which he had sprung in resisting the new horde of Musalmans from the north.
11The political position of Hasan Khán at this time was a very important one. Bábar, in his autobiography, speaks of him as the prime mover in all the confusions and insurrections of the period. He had, he states, vainly shown Hasan Khán distinguished marks of favour, but the affections of the infidel lay all on the side of the Pagans—i.e., the Hindoos; and the propinquity of his country to Dehli, no doubt, made his opposition especially dangerous. Hasan Khán's seat at this time was at Ulwur, but local tradition says that he was originally established at Bahádarpur, eight miles from Ulwur, which was then in the possession of the Nikumpa Rájpúts.|| Bábar's great victory over the Rájpúts and Mewáttís at Fatahpur
13* Brio's Farishta, vol. i. p. 521.
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