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There seems to have been more intimacy between Oudh and Malwa

in

those ancient times than there is now for, did not this same king restore find, as I have just said, the dethe obliterated Ajodhya temples. scendants of one of that country populating a whole distiict in Oudh, and here is a clan in this district taking its name from the capital. And if we look back to the mythical age, we find the exiled Rama wandering in these southern wilds, and we learn of one of his successors, R^ja Dirgbans, the last of the solar line, leaving Ajodhya and taking refuge in the south, where he founded the Dirgbansi clan.

We

IV.

—The Bais. —This clan never gained much head

in the pargana, and of which time we have something like authentic information, they had no proprietary possessions but we find them, at the present time, sub-proprietors of nine and a half villages, of which the chief and also parent village is Hd,midpur. Fotir only of these villages, however, are inhabited by the clan. They consider themselves in the twenty-seventh generation from Man Singh, who came from Baiswara, and from whom they claim to descend. fifty-five years ago,



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The Suhuls.—The offsprings of Kidibr Nath Sukul profess to be in V. the twenty-sixth generation from that person, their accepted ancestor. Forty-four years ago they were still zemindars of two and a half villages they are now proprietors of three and a quarter villages, and sub-proprietors of three and a half, while they inhabit ten villages.



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VI. The Tiwdris. The offspring of Sarwan Tiw£ri say they are twenty-five removes from the common ancestor. They were zamindars of three villages forty-four years ago, and they still are of two villages. They are also sub-proprietors of two villages,- while they form the majority of the population of six others.

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The Updddhias. The progeny of Dhodhar Upaddhia were more VII. prosperous than the other Brahmans, to whom reference has above been made. They now state they are in the twenty-fifth generation from their Forty-four years ago they owned eleven and a quarter villages, originator. and thanks to their prowess in the use of the matchlock and sword, which won for them the name of Talwarias, their possessions have remained inThey, however, only inhabit seven of these villages. tact.

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VIII. The Pdndes (two families). 1st. The descendants of Mutkar Pande Sarwaria, in Haweli, think themselves now to be in the twentyeighth generation from their progenitor, he who crossed from Gorakhpur (Sarwar). They held as proprietors two and a quarter villages so far back They are still proprietors of a single village, and as forty-four years ago. sub-proprietors of two and three-quarter villages, while they constitute the

major part of the inhabitants of six

villages.

—The offspring of Bawan Pande Kantani, in Harai, consider them-

^nd.selves to

be in the thirty-second generation from their progenitor. They aU superior rights, antecedent to the period of which we have aiithentic information, but they are still in possession of three villages as

had

lost

sub-proprietors, while they are found populating seven villages.