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Gazetteer Of Ulwar 1878, 1878
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1Sikri relieved him of further difficulty with respect to Mewát, where he proceeded immediately after the battle. Hasan Khán had either fallen in the struggle or he had immediately afterwards been murdered by a servant instigated by his relations. Bábar "advanced four marches from Fatahpur Sikri, and after the fifth encamped six kos from the Fort of Ulwur, on the banks of the River Manisni."* A messenger from Hasan Khán's son, Náhar Khán, arrived begging for pardon, and on receiving an assurance of safety, Náhar Khán came to Bábar, who bestowed on him a "paragna" of several lacs (of dams, of which forty go to the rupee), for his support.
3Bábar states that "Hasan Khán's ancestors had made their capital at Tijára," but when he came to Mewát, Ulwur was the "seat of Government." The conqueror bestowed the city of Tijára, which he still designates "the capital of Mewát," on a follower named Chin Timúr Sultán, with fifty lacs of dáms. Fardí Khán, who had commanded the right flank in the battle of Fatahpur Sikri, received charge of the Fort of Ulwur. Bábar himself visited and examined the Fort, where he spent a night,† and the treasure in which he bestowed on his son Humaiyún.
5The political power of the Khánzáda chiefs of Mewát was now permanently broken, and they do not again appear, like Bahádar Náhar and Hasan Khán, as the powerful opponents or principal allies of emperors. There was a regular succession of Mughal Governors or Fort Commandants of Ulwur and Tijára; stone causeways were run across the hills in the neighbourhood of Kotila and Tijára; and the anecdotes of Lál Dás, a religious reformer—half Hindú, half Musalman—who flourished in Mewát in the time of Akbar and Shah Jahán, are full of oppressions, practised not by local potentates settled in the country, but by Mughal officers. The Khánzádas still retained local importance, which, as will be subsequently shown, did not quite disappear until the present century. The extent of the territory they once held is pretty well indicated by the Musalman historians, existing traditions, and local remains. Rewári was at times
7Tod the name "Nikumpa" appears; but Tod could find out nothing of the history of the Nikumpa race, except that they preceded the Sesodias at Mandelgarh in Mewár. Had his inquiries extended to Ulwur, he would have discovered that local tradition declares the Nikumpa to have been the earliest possessors of the town and fort of Ulwur, and of the surrounding territory. Khilora, an important village in Rámgarh, is said to have belonged to them, and the first erection of the fort of Indor is attributed to them. The ruling Nikumpa family is said to have sprung from the no longer existing village of Abhaner, the site of which lies about nine miles north of Ulwur in the Dehra valley, a locality in other respects remarkable (see Religion, page 53). According to a local rhyme they removed from Abhaner to Dadíkar, which is situated deeper in the hills, and somewhat nearer Ulwur. At Dadíkar, Chand Rai Nikumpa is said to have assumed the title
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