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In 1246 F. to 1250 F. these parganas were in the contract of Eaja Darshan Singh at Rs. 2,12,000, who allowed Gur Bakhsh Singh to engage under him for 46 at—

Ramnagar, Muhammadpur, BhitauU.

Jama

2,12,000 40,000

Nazrana Balance of former years

35,000 2,87,000

Gur Bakhsh Singh's balance of 75,000 gave Singh made the parganas kachcha.

rise to

a quarrel, and Darshan

During Darshan Singh's tenure the estate was ruined, having graduallydeclined since the chakladari of Mendu Khan in 1238 F., and the small receipts of 1249-50 were due to the extortions of Darshan Singh in 1247-48 F. The zamindars had even been reduced to selling their daughters. 1251 F. The contracts of the two parganas were given to Gur Bakhsh Singh, who had presented himself in Lucknow, at 1,80,000. The balance at the year's end was 60,000. Ea.

1252 F.

Gur Bakliah

1,46,000 1,25,000

at

Paid in

21,000

Balance

as.

His

Five years' engagement given to Gur Bakhsh.

1253.

were

follows

collections



Es. 1,75,000 1,75,000 1,70,000 1,75,000 2,00,000 2,00,000 2,00,000

1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256 1257

These were not extortionate, nor were the zamindars ruined, no great rise and no reduction made, and no new villages brought into or thrown out

''being

of cultivation.

In 1258 the parganas were incorporated in the nizdmat of Khaifabad under the control of Husen Ali Khan. He gave Raja Gur Bakhsh Singh the engagement at Rs. 1,50,000. Girdh^ra Singh became Nazim of Khairabad he allowed Gur Bakhsh Singh (1260) to hold as before. 1259.

During collections



this tenure one-fourth of the estate fell out of cultivation.

(The

had been by jamog.)

1261. Raja Sarabjit Singh, presenting himself in Lucknow obtained the contract of Ramnagar, Muhammadpur, and Bhitauli at 1,51,000, Bhitauli 29,000, Ramnagar and Muhammadpur 1,22,000.

Although the

collection^ were-

BWtauli

KAmnagar and Muhammadpur

Ea. 40,000 1,60,000

2,00,000

Sarabjit Singh only paid in Rs, 53,000, leaving a balance of Rs. 98,000.

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