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In 423 Hijri, S^Mr Sim, the father of MasaM, invaded the place, and having taken prisoner the chiefs of Kara and M^nikpur, granted this estate to Malik AbduUa. Since that time the Muhammadans have had a footing here. This grant and the existence of several tombs (yet standing) of Ghdlib, Malik s Ali and WaU, and other martyrs, are proofs that they had possessions here in the time of Sayyad SaMr. This town prospered during the reign of Altamsh of Delhi about 600 Hijri. At that time, one Makhdum Badr-ud-din, a companion of the king, resided there. Thenceforward the town did well till the time of Flroz Shah Tughlaq, who founded a school for the instruction of the people in Moslem lore. Its usefulness can be gathered from the perusal of a book called " Chandrani" in BhS,kha, edited by Mulla Daud of Dalmau in 719 Hijri (1255). Yusuf, a gentleman resident of this town, had, in the time of the abovementioned Firoz Shah, built an Idg£h (where Musalmans go to pray on the day of 'Id'), and on the same site still stands an Idgah recently erected. The stone is still visible on which a qita or pair of couplets engraved upon its surface gives the name of Yusuf, the builder, and the reigning king, Firoz Shah, and the date 759 Hijri. In 1394 A.D., at the

close of the Tughlaq dynasty in the person of Tughlaq, ihe above-mentioned tribe of Bhars attained great power in this country. After 1398, during the same king's reign, Khw^ja Malik Sarwar, the subahdar of Jaunpur, raised the standard of independence, ascended the throne, and took the title of Sultan-ush-Sharq. The provinces of Kanauj, Dalmau, Sandlla, Bahraich and Bihar were included by him in his kingdom of Jaunpur. As thus settled, it remained included in the kingdom of Jaunpur, but in the possession of the Bhars. In the reign of Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi, who succeeded in 804 Hijri, Dal, a Bhar Chief, who lived in the fort of Dalmau, wished to obtain the hand The Sayyad went to Sultan of the daughter of Baba Haji, a Sayyad. Ibrahim and asked his assistance. The king marched with a large army, and having arrived on the day of the Holi festival, he killed Kakor, the brother of D61, who had opposed him at the village Sudamdnpur, which is 14 miles distant from this town, and then conquered the whole Bhar army. The tomb of the same Dal is still standing about two miles from this town, and the Ahirs, in the month of Saivan, there offer milk on it. The Bhars were treated with terrible severity, of which traditions still survive. The author of the " Lataif-i-Ashrafi " writes that there has been terrible expedition in India since the invasion of the Arabs. no such There is a caste called Bharonia, a tribe of AhIrs, which is occasionally found in the villages of this pargana, and among them the custom exists that their women do not wear the ordinary nose-ring and glass bracelets, After the annihilation of this tribe, in commemoration of that expedition. the Shekhs, Sayyads, and other followers of the king of Jaunpur, as also the descendants of those who had entered this countryin the service of Masatid, were rewarded for their good services with zamindaris and other high honours, and settled in the towns Dalmau, Bareli, Bh^wan, JaMlpur Dehi, Thulendi, &c,, wherever they got permission.

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masonry well and a garden on the bank of the river, erected by Sultan Ibrdhim Sharqi in this town, still exist, and in the same garden there is the tomb of Muhammad Shah, the grandson of Sultan Ibrahim Sharqi, 7.

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