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The pargana was formed as such by the celebrated Todar Mai, out villages belonging to Manwdn, which were subsequently increased 825; and thus remained up to annexation. They were demarcated 215

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to at

regular settlement into 129 mauzas.

The early inhabitants are said to have been Kachheras and Ahirs, who held the district till 500 years ago, when they were dispossessed by one Partab Singh from pargana Kursi. He received a farman for the property from the Emperor Tughlaq as a reward for his having adopted the faith of Islam and taken the name of Malik Partab. One hundred and seventy-five years later, and twenty-five before Tibdar Mai's settlement, Mubarak a son of the Emperor Humayun, came to hunt in the neighbourhood and in the Hindi tongue a Bdri where now Bari Khas built a shooting-box Round this Bari sprang up the houses of his followers, and one stands. Makhdiim of Khairabad built a house of prayer in the town, which is there now. The place became a qasba, and when Todar Mai's settlement officers came to demarcate the pargana, they found a Qazi and Kayaths already in office there. It is the head-quarters of a tahsil. •

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The greater part of the pargana is held by Bais, of whom the chief proprietors are Beni Singh ofKanhmau, and Jawahir Singh of Basahidih: both taluqdars. There are some Panwars also, part of the great Panwar colony, who possess the neighbouring pargana of Manwan or Mannaudi, to the history of which pargana the reader is referred for the date of their occupation of the country. The Bais settlement is of anterior date. In 1035 Fasli, or 250 years ago, Bhikhamdeo and Bhan Singh, great-grand-sons of Tilok Chand, the celebrated progenitor of the Bais of Baiswara, were appointed as nazims under Kesho Das, the diwan of the Oudh Subahdar of the period, and the holder injagirof this part of the country. In 1038, the jagir was confiscated, but the two nazims remained in possession as taluqdars. In 1051 the property was divided in two, each taluqdar taking one-half of it. In 1075 Bhan Singh's estate was sub-divided into three, between his three sons Rup Singh, Jagat Singh, and Dariao Singh. From Rup Singh are descended the lambardars of Jairampur and Phulpur, and from Dariao Singh sprang the zamindars of Maheshpur and Bikrampur. Jagat Singh had two sons, Gend Singh and Madkar Sdh. This estate was divided between them. From the former came the taluqdars of Kanhmau ; from the latter the taluqdars of Basahidih.

PEDIGREE TABLE. Bhan

Bhikliaindeo.

Eup

Jagat Singh.

Singh.

Gend Lambardars of

Singh.

Singh.

,

Dariao Singh.

Madkar

Kanhmau, taluqdars. Basahidih,

Singh.

taluqdars. Lambardars of

Jairampur, Phul-

Maheshpur and

P'^r-

Bikrampur.