He had a brother, Rahmut, after whom the town of Rahmutgunge, which we passed some days ago, took its name.

Meean Almas was the greatest and best man of any note that Oude has produced.

He held for about forty years this and other districts, yielding to the Oude Government an annual revenue of about eighty lacs of rupees.

During all this time he kept the people secure in life and property, and as happy as people in such a state of society can be; and the whole country under his charge was, during his life- time, a garden.

He lived here in a style of great magnificence, and was often visited by his sovereign, who used occasionally to spend a month at a time with him at Meeangunge.