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back as can be traced, the pargana was sub-divided into ten tap(1) Sarwan, (2) Rohiawan, (3) Bewanna, (4) Harai, (5) Makraha, The Haweli, (6) (7) Jatauli, (8) Earaunda, (9) Katghar, and (10) Imlak. tappa is an old sub-division well known in the neighbouring districts of Gorakhpur and Azamgarh, and which was retained in the last settlement of the former and persons of respectability and note of by-gone ages are mentioned in old documents, with reference to the influence they possessed in the tappa where they lived. far

pas, viz.,

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It is affirmed that

eight

members

during the rule of the Bhar leaders named above,

of different clans

came

to

them

in search of service, and

were appointed to the management of, and located in the sions just indicated, by them, in the following order.

territorial divi-

Jagnag Rae, Raghubansi, a descendant of Raja Raghu, one of the ancesr Ram Chandar of Ajodhya, came, and was followed by Bawan Pande, Kantani, and these men were settled and employed in tappa Harai. Then came Siripat Rana, Sakarwar, a horse merchant, from Fatehpur-Sikri, near Agra, where many of his clansmen still have villages, and joined the Bhars and was employed and settled in tappa Makraha. He was followed by Man Singh, Bais, from Baiswara, who was settled in Hamidpur-Warri, (which, however, was not a tappa,) and founded a colony. After this came Johpat Sah, Ujjainia, from Ujjain, and he found employment in tappa Rohiawan. Then Kidar Sukul arrived, and was appointed managing agent of tappa Imlak, and was followed by Sarwan Tiwari, who was estal^ lished in tappa Sarwan. Next came Dhodhar Upaddhia, who was located tors of the illustrious

in tappa Katghar, while the Kurmis, who cannot be said, traditionally, even to have come from elsewhere, are found managing tappa Bewanna. Last of all came Mutkar Pande, Sarwaria, and in him was vested the management of tappa Haweli.

As long as the Bhars continued to maintain their power, the persons above-mentioned, or their heirs, are said to have carried on their duties as dependents in the positions which had originally been assigned to them but in process of time the Bhar supremacy languished as the Muhammadan power became gradually consolidated, and soon the aboriginal race lost their footing entirely. It would appear that revenue engagements were then entered into on the part of the conquerors, with the parties found in actual management, and who were thus maintained in the possession of the jurisdictions which had been entrusted to their care by their now deposed masters.

supposed to have gone on for a considerable period, is, that the Sakarwar and Raghubansi colonies, having greatly outstripped the other parties, soon began to absorb the possessions of the Brahman and Kurmi families. I shall now give a brief account of the different original colonies to which aUusion has been made, premising by noting that there are no data from which we can give the order or probable period of advent, and that the number of generations said to intervene, between the founder of the colony and the people now alive, is in each case liable to question. This state of things

is

and the next known phase of transition