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 BAH

192

some were merely entrusted to him. In all of them amicable agreements were effected, the taluqdar giving the plaintiffs most favourable terms. Throughout the district 68 villages and one portion of a village have been obtained in sub-settlement by the under-proprietors the claimants having obtained terms as follows and

Tillages

18

one portion 42J 8

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in excess of the

cent. at rental 10 per '^



J

ditto ditto

ditto ditto

10 to 20 per cent. ditto

above 20

Government

revenue. ditto ditto

ditto ditto

684

Besides these, one village and one portion of a village have been decreed Of these 68^ villages 45| in farm in hereditary but not transferable right; were decreed in the estate above mentioned, Ranipur, and 7^ in Waira Qazi, one of the estates held by the Sayyad of Jarwal. Of the remainder 5;^ villages were awarded in sub-settlement by the British Indian Association.

The zamindari and

pattidari estates only comprise 251 villages in this and it is therefore no matter for surprise that there were only 647 claims to share instituted nearly district,

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one-half of these were amicably settled, rather more than one-fourth were dismissed, 60 were judicially decreed, and 100 were withdrawn.

Notwithstanding that a large number of the claims to sub-settlement of whole villages were altogether groundless, there was a sufficient proportion of cases in which the claimants had doubtless at one time or another held connection proprietary or quasiproprietary with the village, to justify the expectation that a fair amount of sir, nankar, would be decreed. These anticipations have not been realized, the amount of land and cash decreed in sub-tenures and under-proprietary right in taluqas being excessively insignificant compared with the Sir in taluqa

vast area of these large estates.

This

is

partly accounted for by the fact that in two parganas where it is likely that such claims would have been decreed most

Claims withheld.

freely, namely, Bahraich and Ikauna, very few of those whole villages have been dismissed have come forward to secure minor rights. In the Ikauna ilaqa, in which probably many an old birtdar who failed to establish his claim to an entire village might have obtained something in the shape of dih, sir, &c., not a single man has come forward. In this estate no under-proprietary rights of any sort have been recorded.

whose

suits for the

This reluctance on the part of under-proprietors to prefer their claims ^^J ^® accounted for partly by their unwillingness to this. risk anything more in the court. They saw petition after petition consigned to the records when the claims to whole villages were under investigation, and they did not gather much hope from this of being successful in more humble suits. still more powerful reason, however, for acting as they did is to be found in the course followed by the agents of the loyal grantee who holds the estate, in making it thoroughly well-known throughout the ilaqa that the under-proprietor's only chance Eeasona for

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