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payments, however, included villages in other parganas

demand

of the present settlement

amounts to Rs.

also.

The

revised

1,56,766.

It has been stated that the first division of property amongst these taluqdars took place about 150 years ago, when the sons of Horal Singh, twentieth in descent from Pithraj Deo, separated, and they seem ever since to have been at war with each other, as well as with their neighbours generally. Of the fifty-nine descendants of the said Horal who are named in the ancestral tree, twelve had died violent deaths during the native rule, twenty-seven have died natural deaths, and twenty are still alive.

A- detail of those who died fighting will society in the ex-king's time.

The

(a).

Horal

throw some light on the

following six persons are of the progeny of

state of

Ain Singh, son

of



Maghundth Singh having obtained the revenue contract for the entire 1. pargana was killed in mauza Jamlupur while trying to subdue his kinsman Lalji Singh. 2. Sarabddn Singh was killed in the Azamgarh district, before it was ceded, while resisting his kinsman Pahlwan Singh, who had obtained the revenue engagements of the pargana.

3 & 4. PirtMpdl Singh and Bhora Singh, his brother, were killed in a quarrel about a boundary with a zamindar in the Azamgarh district prior to cession.

Munna Singh was killed trying to subdue his kinsman Deodatt 5. Singh, at Putharpara, he having entered into engagements for the pargana. Daljit Singh was killed in the Jannesri jungle, trying to 6. nazim. Raja Darshan Singh. (&).

The

resist

the

following six persons are of the offspring of Lashkar Singh, son

of Horal:

7 & 8. Jabrdj Singh and his son AdU Svngh were killed in a boundary dispute with the Raja of Maholi, in Zila Gorakhpur, before cession. 9.

Pahlwdn Smgk was killed while trying to subdue his kinsman

dan Singh, who was

also killed in that fight (see

Sarah-

No. 2 above).

10. Parshdd Singh was killed in the famous action of Masora, mentioned in the Surharpur history, when the Palwar clan was arrayed against the Rajkumars of Meopur ; and on which occasion most of the chiefs of the latter house bit the dust.

Jagat Nardim, Singh had to give way before his kinsman Daljit, 11. who had obtained the revenue engagements of the pargana, and in an attack made by Jagat Nar^in to recover his own fort at Rajapur, which

was held by government officials, some of the latter were slain. For this he was proclaimed, and having been traced into the Gorakhpur district, he was there put to death by some cavalry when in a state of comparative helplessness, and his head was sent over to the Oudh officials.