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of the Lorepur branch and of the line. These people all assume the designation of Malik but why, I cannot say for it will be seen that their common ancestor was a Shekh.



The house of Samanpur. is

—Malik Hidayat Husen, the present taluqdar,

eleventh in descent from Shekh

Ahmad

Qittal,

the originator of the

family.

The hereditary property of this branch of the family originally consisted of three mauzas, including Lorepur Palhan, the parent village. So matters remained till Malik NuruUa rose to influence, and between the year 1166 and 1170 Fasli, or 1759 and 1763 A. D., his revenue engagements included fifty villages, besides having some of the jagir villages of Iftikh^r-uddaula, mentioned in the Surharpur Report, in farm. This state of things was continued during the lives of Maliks Rflhulla The latter was succeeded hy Malik Ramzdn Bakhsh, who increased the property by adding to it in 1197 Fasli, or 1790 A. D., eleven villages, (Masenda, &c.,) the muafi of Hikmat Husen Khan, resumed by order of Nawab Asif-ud-daula. This property then consisted of 61 mauzas, the revenue of which was paid to the above-mentioned Iftikhar-ud-daula, who was muafidar of 247^ mauzas, had an assignment, and was brother of the Bahd Begam.

and Najaf.

D., owing to the ill-conduct of Zafar-ud-daula, of the former muafidar, and grandfather of Zainud-din, one of the present agents of the Begam's trust, this jagir was resumed, and the revenue arrangements were entrusted to Mian Almas Ali Khan, the far-famed eunuch. This man entrusted the direct manage-

In 1202

Fasli, or

1795 A.

Bande Ali Khan, the son

ment of the whole jagir, including his own villages, to Malik Ramzan Bakhsh, who retained charge till 1212 Fasli, or 1805 A. D., when he was formally allowed to engage for 308 mauzas, under the name of taluqa Samanpur. Of these, as already shewn, 247^ were assigned villages, which had been resumed and 61 were villages previously acquired.

Between that year and 1220 Fasli, or 1813 A. D., 24| more villages were absorbed from the Akbarpur chaudhris and others into this taluqa. Ramzan Bakhsh was succeeded in 1231 Fasli, or 1824 A. D., by his son Tafazzul Husen, who, two years afterwards, added taluqa Reori and other villages to his estate, increasing it to 364 villages. Between that time and the annexation of this province, this taluqa was still further increased by the addition of twenty-two other villages. Malik Tafazzul Husen died after the mutiny, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Malik Hidayat Husen the present taluqdar.

The notorious rebel ndzims, Muhammad Husen and Mehndi Husen, first rose to influence in the service of the late taluqdar, whose paid agents they formerly were and there is little question that, had the annexation been but a little delayed, they would soon have appropriated their master's proThey made the late taluqdar, who was a puppet in their hands, perty. join them with a contingent in the occupation of Gorakhpur, and when

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