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DAL—DAR Jang, the country was divided into in Nizdmat Baiswara.

359

zilas,

and Dalmau was made a chakla

The Bais were almost the sole proprietors, till the forfeiture of the great Rana Beni Madho resulted in the distribution of the property among gentlemen of various nationalities, Sikhs, Englishmen and Bengalis. estate of

—

The history

of the Bais belongs more properly to the account of Baiswara given under Rae Bareli it may, however, here be mentioned that, according to local tradition, when the invasion of Abhar Ghand took it is



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place, he was accompanied by the following Chhattris, Gaur, Bachgoti, Bandhalgoti (Amethia), all from Kalinjar in Bundelkhand. The Kachhwahas from Jaipur, the Dikhit, Bisen, Kanhpuria, Sombansi, Janwar, Raikwar, from the Duab, also accompanied the Bais chief It is rather strange that these ten tribes with the Bais are so numerous and powerful in Oudh that they hold about half the landed property.

It appears almost as if the great Chhattri immigration was headed by Abhai Chand. The Bais are said to have settled in the pargana in 1088 Hijri they came in from Daundia Khera. They have peculiar customs the elder of two sons gets IJ shares, the younger, one share of the inheritance.



The

principal estate

is

that of Khajlirgaon, belonging to a younger off from the main stem of

branch of the Tilok Chandi Bais, which broke

Murarmau.

DARYABAD Town—Pargana

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Tahsil R/m Sanehi Ghat— town was founded some 450 years ago by Darya Khan, a subahdar of Muhammad Ibrahim Sharqi. It lies on the old high road from Lucknow to Fyzabad, about 24 miles east of the sadr. There are one or two fine houses, notably that of Rde Abhiram Bali, Kayath, qantingo and taluqdar of Rampur, who is the principal resident and an honorary magistrate. District

Bara

Bajjki.

—This

Daryabad

—

one to the west, built about 80 years ago by Roshan Ali Khan the other to the east, founded by Stiraj Bali, ancestor of the present taluqdar.

There are two bazars,

Lai,

Diwan of Almas



school here is very flourishing, and Rae Abhiram Bali good example by sending his own family there to learn English.

The Government sets a

When

autumn crops are ripe, fever and ague are very prevalent, low swampy ground round the town. Indeed, after a heavy fall of rain, the country round is a sheet of water, so that the name Daryabad is not inappropriate, what the natives term " Ism-i-ba-musamma." owing

the

to the

After the rebellion this was the head-quarters of the district, but, owing to the unhealthiness of the place, it was soon transferred to Nawabganj, and is stUl there. The town has declined with the removal of the sadr and

the change in the high road to Fyzabad, which now runs about six miles The muhallas axe " Katrato the south instead of through it as formerly. i-Darbdri Lai," "Muhalla Muharriran" (writers' quarters), "Muhalla Makhdtim-zadan" (quarters of descendants of holy men), " Muhalla Chaudharian," "Muhalla Dikhit," " Muhalla

MughMn/'

&c.