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Shekh RahimuUa came to India with Taimur and became Governor of Kashmir and Lahore. His son and grandson, Shekhs QudratuUa and Muhammad Amdnulla, also held office under the crown. The great grandson Shekh NiamatuUa, did good sei-vice to the State and in reward was made by the Emperor Humdyun, chaudhri of the pajgana, with two rentThis was in 945 Hijri, free villages and a money nankar of Rs. 1,700. (1538 A.D). Murtaza Bakhsh is eighth in descent from Shekh Niamatmlla. The family gained further favours and villages from Alamgir, and large additions by purchase and mortgage were made by Muhammad J?azl, the fourth from Shekh Niartiatulla.

From an account of Gopamau by Nawab Nasir-ul-Islam Khan, I learn that this fortunate family monopolized the offices of chaudhri, qdzi and sanad of Shah Jah^n of 1627 A.D., shown me by molvi of the pargana. Shekh Muhammad A'zam of Gfopanaau recites that the office of qazi of pargana Gopamau in the Khairabad sarkar with two hundred and sixtyone bighas and four biswas of land as madad-maash, or maintenance, had been held by Qazi Abdul Halim, and that he having presented himself at court and pleaded age and infirmity, the post had been conferred on He is to settle disputes, claims, and comhis son Qazi Abdul Ghafiir. plaints, to perform marriages, distribute the property of deceased persons, adjust claims for plots of lands (chaks), and supervise weights and meaAll state officers, jagirdars and kroris are to uphold his authority. sures. The residents are to refer to him in all matters of religion and to regard all title deeds and documents signed by him as valid. The overthrow of the Ahban raj in Muhamdi in 1785, shook but did not displace the unperverted Hindu Ahbans of Bhainsri, Mr. McMinn traces this event to the rise of the Gaurs. " It is probable," he writes, *' that the fall of the Ahban raj was due to the rise of the Ga,urs. In 1768, the Gaurs of " pargana Chandra, who nnder Chandra Sen had entered Oudh in 1707,, attacked the Ahbans and drove them oxit from Maholi and Mitaiili." (see

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threw up an earthwork there. Sital Parshad held the circle till, A.D. 1812 when his cruelty led to his arrest and removal to Lucknow. Sobha Acharaj, a young man of twenty, when this chakladar was appointed^ remembers him well. His chief exploits were the conquest of the Jangre Chhattris at Dhaurahia under Chapi Singh, and the destruction of Narpat Singh, and taking of Katesax the stronghold of the Gaurs. He ruled the Bangar with a rod of iron. A delay in paying the revenue, however short, cost the defaulter the loss of his hasnd, or horrible to relate, the mutilation cf the nose or breasts of the defaulter's wife. His reign of terror lasted eleven years. His successors were, Sobba says. Raja Bhawand Parshdd, Kayath, who oppressed none Aza Khan, Mughal R^e Bakht Mai, Kashmiri, who built a new fort at Tandiaon, amd deserted the old one Molvi Farid-ud-din, one of the Shekhs of Gopamau Hasan Ali Khan of MaliLabad Rae Dilar^m, brother of Rae Bakht Mai, who built a shiwalai with grove and well at Tandiaon ; then his son R^ja Shiu Nath Singh, .