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Ashan and tappa Sidhauli, each of which he placed under the charge a collector or amil, and called this pargana Thulendi.

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This arrangement remained till the time of Nawab Asif-ud-daula, when Hdja Niwaz Singh, a Brahman nazim, transferred the head-quarters of the pargana from Thulendi to Bachhrawan, and since then it has been called pargana Bachhrawan. Now the pargana comprises fifty-eight villages its length from east to west is twelve miles and breadth from north to south nine miles, and its area is ninety-four square miles. It is bounded on the east by pargana Hardoi on the west by parganas Nigohdn of Lucknow and Mauranwan of TJnao on the south and north by parganas Bareli and



Kumhrawan,

respectively.

The pargana was formerly nearly all in the possession of the descendants of Qazi Sulta,n, but gradually they were deprived of the greater portion The Kurmis, called Jaisw^rs, of their estates by the Kurmis and Bais. came from the neighbourhood of Kanauj some four hundred and seventyfive years ago, when a great famine had caused much distress in that One Kesho Das, the ancestor of the present Kurmis of this parcountry. gana, entered the service of Bachhraj Pande Chaudhri, the founder of the village Bachhrawdn, and the latter having been killed by the then governor of the place, Kesho Das joined the governor he gave proofs of fidelity, and was therefore nominated to succeed the Chaudhri BachhrJij Pande. He obtained a good estate in zamindari, but his descendants gradually incurred debts, and have mortgaged and sold a great portion of the so-acquired estate to Chandan Lai a Khattri banker of Mauranwan the villages so transferred being combined together, are called the taluqa of Thulendi.



The Bais Har Singh Rae, the son

of

Karan Rae, separated himself from

his brothers in Nahesta, and brought Sidhauli and some other villages into his possession by the sword ; his descendants increased their possessions by degrees, till one descendant, Eaja Hindpal Singh, came to hold the taluqa of Karauli-Sidhauli, and another, Thakur Bhagwan Bakhsh, the taluqa of Of the ancestors of Raja Hindpal of Karauli-Sidhauli, Bhdn TJdrahra.

Singh was the most powerful, and to his estate belonged the Pargana Sissaindi, which was granted to the ancestors of Raja Kashi Parshdd, the present taluqdar, as a gift. The descendants of Qazi Sultan now possess only six villages, and these also are mortgaged to the Thulendi taluqdar.

The system

of tenure Taluqdari

Grant Zamindari Pattidari

is

as follows



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58 villages.

The area of the pargana is 60,395 acres, and the Government revenue Rs. 1,40,192, the rate per acre being on an average Rs. 2-6-0. The population is composed of all castes, high and low. The Muhammadans are chiefly of the Sunni sect. The higher caste Hindus Brahmans, Kayaths, and Chhattris belong to the Shaivi creed, and are more

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