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in the Nawabi, and they have thus escaped being placed under the taluqdar's sanad.

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Taluqa of SlJ,rajpur. This estate comprises fifty-six villages. The present proprietor is Raja Udatt Partab Singh, the head of Bahrelia Bais Thakurs. Here, again, the Raja is mentally and physically unfit to manage his estate but so long as his maternal grandfather, Udatt Narain, livas there is no fear of under-proprietors, tenants or patwaris defrauding the

family.

The late Rdja Singji was a most formidable and violent landholder until he was attacked by Maharaja Man Singh, captured and taken prisoner to Lucknow, where he died in jail. It was mainly owing to the bad example set by Singji that the Daryabad district was so turbulent under the native Government, that amils and chakladars were to use a unable to breathe in

native expression

(S'dk

it

men dam

charhta

tha.)

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Taluqa of Jahdngirabad. The taluqdar of Jah^ngirabad is a Qidwai Shekh, Rdja Farzand Ali Khan. He owes his position to two circumstances (1) his marriage with the daughter of R^ja Razzaq Bakhsh, the late proprietor of the taluqa (2) to a fortuitous incident which occurred about three years before annexation. Farzand Ali was the darogah in charge of the Sikandarbagh at Lucknow. On one occasion of the last king of Oudh visiting the garden, he was struck with the appearance of this young man, and presenting him with a khilat, directed him to attend at the palace.

With such a signal mark of the royal favour, Farzand All's advancement was rapid, and, under the interest of the influential eunuch, Bashirtid-daula, he obtained a farman designating him the Raja of Jahanglrabad. This taluqdar followed the deposed king to Calcutta, and was there during the mutinies. Raja Farzand Ali is very intelligent, and well able to manage his estate with prudence and circumspection.

Taluqa of Barai.

—Chaudhri GhuUm Farid,

a Siddiqi Shekh,

is

the

largest landholder of the Rudauli tahsil. He owns thirty-nine villages. At the summary settlement before annexation, he contemplated depriving the children of his cousin, Mumtaz Ahmad, of their share in the estate,

unmindful of the past long possession of his cousin; but at the earnest representations of Sayyad Abdul Hakim, an extra assistant commissioner, who was respected throughout the district, he made a fair division, which is in force up to date in fact, he gave them half the estate.

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Taluqas of Rudauli. It would be too long a story to luqa, for there are in all forty-three.

An

account of the remaining great families

of parganas Bhitauli, Daryabad,

is

and Sdrajpur,

mention each ta-

given under the headings which they reside.

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Events of the 7nutiny.—A few remarks may be made about the events of the mutiny. Unlike what occurred in the districts of Hardoi, Gonda, and Lucknow, the whole body of the taluqdars in this district joined the cause of the deposed king and the mutineers. They offered no resistance however, of any moment to the advance of the British troops after the

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