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,

BiAH

120

Old name of mulial in the AIn-i-Akbari,

( I

Faklirpur

Present

I.— Faklirpur pargana, except the north-western portion comprising the ^hahlaji and part of the Baundi estates

II.

Nawa-

V

Bahraich.

— Hisampur

pargana, the Eaikwari muhals, viz., the northern section of the present Hisampur pargana

L

Qila

Name of district or tenitory in which the muhdl is now

of pargana, estate, &c., carrespbnding with muhal in column I.

included.

{

garli

name

.

.

Kheri

—Pargana Firozabad in Kteri... that comprising L —Fakhrpur pargana, a portion, the (Jhahlari and a part of the Baiindi estates that comprising the —Nanpara pargana, a portion, Mallapitr villages in the Kheri Note. — The remainder of old Firozabad

and

Sitapur.

III.

viz.,

viz.,

IJ.

Firozabad

Bahraich Kheri.

&

is

district.

Khurasa

...

From

All in the

Gonda

Gonda.

district

this identification of muhals

and from a glance at the small aniount leviable from the northern Tarai parganas, revenue ^^ Evidence that the Muhammadan hold on Rajhat, and Behra, it is clear that even under Akbar's the north was Veryrule the Muhammadan sway was almost nominal in weak. these remote districts. In Rajhat, too apparently, a force of 1,000 footmen had to be maintained to keep possession even of the few thousand bighas that did pay revenue to the Delhi Government, while in D^ngdoi, the Tarai pargana to the east, a still larger force of 2,000 footmen and 900 horse had to be maintained to keep the hill chieftains in check.

Section X.

The Raihwdrs. It was in the time of Akbar that the Raikwar Harhardeo, fourth in descent from Saldeo of Bamhnauti, who had been sumHarhardeo s j^^^g^j Rdp ^q ^.^^j^ ^ explain a breach of good manners ,

in levying toll from one of the princesses as she passed through his estate on a pilgrimage to Sayyad Salar's shrine, rendered such assistance to the Sultan in the expedition organised by him against I'dgar, the rebellious Governor of Kashmir, that he obtained the grant of the zamindari of nine parganas or portion of parganas as follows Fakhrpur, Hisampur, half Firozabad, Rajpur (Chahlari), Bansura (in Sitapur), Seota (in Sitapur), Sailuk (Bhitauli), Garh (in Kheri), Bamhnauti (Baundi), but this grant does not appear to have consisted of anything more than a certain rent charge of the land, and possession did not neces:

sarily

accompany

it.

Harhardeo returned about 1590 Ai D. to his home to find his son Jitdeo seated on the gadi, the Raikw^rs having despaired Of the return of their chief. The father refused to oust his son, and retirmg to Tappa Baunraha which was owned by a Brahman, he married his daughter, an only child, and founded the -Harharpur iMO[^ of fifty-two villages still owned by his

th?HX°uril£."''

descendants, but

now

split

up into no

less

than fourteen distinct muhals.