Life of Ahmad — Page 68
68 CHAPTER 6 AFTER HIS FATHER’S DEATH By spending a very great sum of money from his own pocket Mirza Ghulam Murtaza had succeeded in regaining proprietary rights over Qadian and a few adjoining villages. But through the simplicity of his Mukhtar the names of all his relations were also entered in the government papers as proprietors 11. 11 According to the Settlement of 1865, the estate was divided into five parts; two-fifths belonged to the descendants of Mirza Ta s adduq Jilani, two fifths to those of Mirza Gul Muhammad, and one-fifth to Mirza Ghulam Murtaza as the managing proprietor. To make this clear, I give here the relevant portion of the pedigree tree: