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and an English town school, with' three masters and seventy boys, is maintained at Baundi by the Maharaja of Kapurthala and Government.

The police station is at Sisia, where there is a force of one chief constable, two head constables, one mounted constable, and twelve constables. •

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There are no traditions relating to this pargana which reach further back than 1400 A.D. About that time the Bhp,r chief Dipchand is said to have held sway but during the early part of his reign, some Slirajbansi Rajputs, under two brothers, named Partab Sah and Dunde Sah, had arrived from Eaika in Kashmir at Ramnagar, on the west bank of the river, an estate which was held by Dipchand's brother. The Raikwars of Shahdinpur Gauria, in pai-gana Bangarmau, Unao, are connected with this family. Partab had two sons, Saldeo and Baldeo, who became naibs of the Ramnagar raja and Dipchand of Bamhnauti, while on a visit to his brother, was so struck with Saldeo's capacity for business, that he brought him back with him to this side of the river. The two Bhars had reason to repent their confidence, for Baldeo in Ramnagar and Saldeo in Bamhnauti each slew his master and usurped his rights. Saldeo was summoned to Delhi to account for his conduct, but at the intercession of one of Dipchand's wives was pardoned, on condition that the lady should be allowed to perform certain customary offices for his children. It is still a custom in this Raikwar family that an Ahir woman should do these rites. The Raikwars were now established, and for four generations held the pargana under Harhardeo, the fourth in descent from Saldeo, is said, about their chief 1590 A.D., to have been called to Delhi, where his services were enlisted by Akbar in the suppression of revolt in Kashmfr, and he came back to Bamhnauti loaded with honours and armed with a farm^n entitling him to a percentage on the revenue of nine parganas, viz., Fakhrpur, Hisampur, half Firozabad, Rajpur (Chahlari), Bansura (in Sitapur), Seota (in Sitapur), Sailuk (Bhitauli), Garh (west of MalMpur), and Bamhnauti.



he found his son had been seated on his gaddi, therefore took possession of tappa Baunraha, fifty-two villages, These fifty-two villages are killing the rdja and marrying his daughter. still known as the Harharpur complex Raikwar muhSls in pargana

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