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But an event was impending which considerably strengthened the power of the Oudh Government in this part of its dominions, acquisition of tlie Tarai parganas. and which rendered these nobles of the north more The

secure in their possessions than they could have been, while the Banjaras and the hill tribes were ready both in their front and on their flank to This was the acquisition of the Tarai harass and even despoil them. parganas.

In 1814 A. D. the attitude assumed by the Naipdl Government towards the Honourable Company became so aggressive that theceasion of the Tarai war became inevitable. It was declared on 1st November 1814 and resulted in the treaty of Sigauli, which was signed on 4th March 1816. By the 3rd Article of this treaty the whole of the lowlands between the rivers Kali (Sarda) and Rapti, besides other territory to the east, was ceded to the Company, and on the 1st of May following, these lands, together with the district of Khairigarh, were made over by the British to the Oudh Government in satisfaction of a loan of a crore of rupees borrowed by the Company from the Nawab Wazir in the previous year. The Naipal war and

The Chauhan Raja

of Tulsipur profited most by this arrangement and obtained the larger portion of the ceded territory, the ceded lands. former holder Raja Kansa S^h of Saliana in the hiUs being killed by the Tulsipur grantee in 1821, and his estate, called afterwards the Banki ilaqa, being occupied by the Chauhan. The western portion of the ceded lands have been held by the family of Rana Kulraj Singh, the taluqdar of Padampur Mahalw^ra.

The grantees

of the

and cession may be noticed the suppression of the Banjaras in the Sujauli (Dharm^npur) pargana. The taluqdar of Isanagar was at this time a minor, but his guardian and uncle Bakhtawar rendered such signal service to the Chakladar Hakim Mehndi in his expedition against these turbulent gentry, that they were no longer able to hold out, and their villages were made over to the assisting noble. It was no doubt the cession of the Tarai to the north that encouraged the Hakim to sweep away these Banjaras once for all.

As a

result of this annexation

The suppression

of the Banjaras a result of the cession.

The

confiscation of their lands threw the whole of the pargana, barring villages on the east held by the Nanp^ra raja, The whole of the Su- ^ ^^^ into the possession of the Jangre families who held pargana thus jauli into the thrown continuously until annexation. The pargana was ,

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included in the Bahraich nizamat, the revenue being paid into the Khairabad treasury. ^^T^'^

Regarding the Charda ilaqa there is but little to record. From the time that Himmat Singh first obtained his clearing lease The Oharda Ilaqa. ^^^^i annexation, it was a period of stea,dy progress, the successive Taluqdars, Duniapat, Mahipat, and Jodh Singh, extending the cultivation by means of labour imported from the Gonda district. The pargana suffered much, however, during Raghubar Dayal's reign of terror.

At annexation Its condition at annexation.

there was comparatively but little waste left to come under the plough, and the estate which the Taluqdar Jodh Singh forfeited by his non-submission under the