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few years' more saw the estate split into two; Gajpat Singh, the younger brother of Eaja Parasram Singh, taking two-fifths, which forms now the Eahwa estate. This is said to have been about the year 1600 A.D. Two generations after this a similar separation of the ChahMri estate under a younger brother took place, and at the same time the revenue percentage in five out of the nine parganas, viz., Fakhrpur, Hisampur, half Firozabad, Bansura, and Seota, was resumed. This was probably in the time of Shah Jahin. About the same time as the separation of the Chahlari estate, one of the members of the Rahwa family went to Delhi and turned Musalman, returned and set up for himself with twenty villages, but these were subsequently re-absorbed into the present estate.

The pargana has been continuously held -by the -three branches of this Raikwar family, and it does not appear whence the author of the Ain-iAkbari got his authority for recording that the pargana was then owned by Janwars. In the time of Akbar the cultivation of the pargana measured 101,700 and its revenue was Rs. 75,366 in other words, the assessment fell with an incidence of about 12 annas per bigha of cultiva,tion. In the time of Shah Jahan the revenue had risen to Rs. 1,56,448 on 545 villages. In 1797 A.D. half the pargana of Firozabad was included in Fakhrpur, and the revenue in 1800 A.D. was on 447 villages Rs. 1,31,537. This was In 1818 A.D. the khdlsa villages of the exclusive of the khalsa villages. pargana were included in the Baundi estate, and the revenue in that year The present pargana includes the was Rs. 2,36,928 on 601 villages. greater part of the original parganas Fakhrpur, half Firozabad, and half Rajpur,' which is identical with the Chahlari estate, and was at one time on the west bank of the river. bighas,



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Pargana Tahsil Safipur—Dis^TOci. Unao. This ancient pargana lies along the Ganges, south of Bangarmiau and north of Safipur it is one of varied scenery, covered with picturesque groves and intersected with channels leading down to the Ganges. The inhabitants relate their early history in the following archaic style "

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lon^ time ago, in days gone by, this spot was a jungle, in which

roamed robbers whose

sole

means

of livelihood

was plunder and

dacoity.

Several years later there came to this place Sayyads, who drove out and destroyed these marauders, and took the lands and built thereon, and ended by taking to the same means of livelihood, until mention of their doings reached the ears of the King of Delhi, and he sent one Raja Karandeo Jan war of Ambepur, a subordinate of the Jaipur raja, with forces to put doAvn these Sayyads. Having effected this purpose, and having cut down the jungle and made habitations on the waste lands, he called it by the name of Fatehpur, signifying that the land had been gained by conquest. Raja Karandeo received a jdgir for Rs. 84,000, and this is why this spot received the name of Fatehpur Chaurdsi." '

The descendants of Raja Karandeo have always inhabited this pargana. The lands belonging to the Chandel Thakurs were formerly on the other side of the Ganges but from the river having changed become included in this pargana.

its

course they have