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cognate with an early Brahmanism, which in its present state is either a rudiment of something that has to be developed, or a fragment of something that has fallen into decay." If Manikapur was colonised from Amethi, there is something more than the resemblance of their name to Banjhilgoti to indicate that these Bujhal Ghartis represent a continuation of the same northerly migration. I have now given such information as I have been able to collect regarding the history of the Bandhalgotis. It is sufficiently clear on all but the two material points of their origin and antiquity. With respect to the latter, there is no inherent improbability in their statement that they settled in their present abodes as much as nine centuries ago. The account which makes the clan of mean origin gives it an existence of more than twenty generations, so that their own annals, which make the present raja twenty-sixth in descent from the founder, may easily be credited. Now in private life a generation may be calculated as eqiiivalent to 33 years,* To so that Slida Rae must have lived between 800 and 900 years ago. apply another test Dharamir lived in the reign of Sher Shah, So Suda Rae, who is placed just twice as far back in the pedigree, must have lived about the beginning of the thirteenth century. About the same result also is arrived at by following the legend which makes Raj Singh a contemporary of Tilok Chand, if, indeed, it be not too dangerous to trust to light derived from such a historical will-o'-the wisp as the Bais chieftain even according to the most moderate calculation therefore, it may be concluded that, whether the Bandhalgotis be of pure Surajbansi origin, or a spurious tribe, " Nawa-Chhattris," as they are sometimes called, their settlement in the Amethi pargana must be referred to at least as early a date as the immigration of any of the acknowledged Chhattri clans of the district. But as to their origin, I forbear to express a decided opinion, leaving it an open question for those who choose to determine on the data I have I can only say of them as was once said of the Douglasses, that furnished. we do not know them "in the stream, in the root, but in the stem".

this account of a great Indian county, I append a of the principal religious edifices erected within its limits, or near to

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List of Hindu

and Muhammadan Temples in Isauliand Amethi parganas.

Namo

of pargana.