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they were maintained in possession of 2,998. Of the remaining 684,305 were included in one estate (Baundi) from which the taluqdar was excluded^ not as having no right to these villages, but on account of defalcation in the payment of the revenue, while 230 were deserted villages, and on that account settled with no one. From 78 villages only were the taluqdars ousted, the adverse claimants being declared the owners of the properties. matter for surprise that so many of the large landholders in this district should have declared against us in the troubles which ensued as to necessitate, on our re-occupation of the province, the confiscation of no less than 1,858 villages belonging to them. The chief delinquents among them were the Rajas of Chahldri and Dhaurahra, the Bhitauli Raja, and the Raja of Baundi. These took an actively hostile part against us, but the three first named can hardly be said to have disgraced this district, as the estates of the two first on this side of the river were included at that time in Sitapur and the Malldpur districts, respectively, while the estate of

This being the

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rebel taluqdara

Gur Bakhsh Singh of Bhitauli belonged to Daryabad. The Raja of Baundi naturally objected to the rule of those who had enforced so strictly their it is scarcely to be wondered at that he should have endeavoured to seize the opportunity afforded to him of recovering his estate and resenting his ejectment.

legitimate demands, and

The

above-named taluqdars, which were wards confiscated, numbered 440, as follows

villages belonging to the

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440

Eija of Chahliri

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The remaining 1,418 villages, which were confiscated for rebellion were held by the following taluqdars

Eaja of Ikauna

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Charda

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Tulsipur

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Eahwa

Taluqdar of Bhinga Tiparaha ,,