The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . as levied, to be devoted to the maintenance of thispalace. Ali Verdi Khan agreed to permit Serajud-dowla to establish a g-ranary or market place, whichbroug-ht in considerable sair revenue in the neighbour-hood of the place, which was thenceforth calledMansurgan^, or the storehouse of the victorious, inreference to one of the titles of Serajuddowla, as wellas this artful trick of pleasantry, in which he i
The musnud of Murshidabad (1704-1904) being a synopsis of the history of Murshidabad for the last two centuries, to which are appended notes of places and objects of interest at Murshidabad . as levied, to be devoted to the maintenance of thispalace. Ali Verdi Khan agreed to permit Serajud-dowla to establish a g-ranary or market place, whichbroug-ht in considerable sair revenue in the neighbour-hood of the place, which was thenceforth calledMansurgan^, or the storehouse of the victorious, inreference to one of the titles of Serajuddowla, as wellas this artful trick of pleasantry, in which he issupposed to have outwitted the craft of more ex-perienced age. The average amount of this sairrevenue or abwab was Rs. 5,01,597. This impositionbecame known as the Nazarana Mansurganj. The palace included the Emtazmahal, describedas big enough to accommodate three Europearmonarchs. This was Serajuddowlas favorite resi-dence. It was from here that Serajuddowla, only sixhours before the arrival of Meer Jaffer from Plassey,fled, after having in the dead of night placed hisfavorite wife, Lutfunnissa Begum, in a covered carriagewith as many valuable jewels as could be carried. MOTI HEERA JHEEL. FANCY PRESS. [ 207 J Meer Jaffer on his arrival at the city took up hisisidence at the Mansurganj palace on the 24th June,:S7. Here, Meer Jaffer was waiting in state to receivelive, to fetch whom he had sent his son, Nawabs Durbar had assembled in the largestadience hall of the palace at Mansurganj. On the]>rth was placed the auspicious throne and Clive,iding that he was hesitating to ascend, led by the hand and placed him on the Tuktobaruk and then, as the representative of the Eastdia Company, presented Meer Jaffer with a nazari gold mohars and congratulated him on his acces-!3n to the musnud of Bengal, Behar and rest of the assembly then presented nazars toeer Jaffer. Clive, through his interpreter, informede assembly that it was fortunate for the
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