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 KHA Rivers.

—The

pargana

is

traversed

by two

135 rivers.

The Gumti, com-

ing from the direction of Lucknow on the west, after leaving the pargana, flows on eastward to Jaimpur. Ferries are established at various places in this part of its course. The Madha issues from a large jhil near Basorhi, in the Bara Banki district, and flowing thence through the Rudauli, Khandansa, and Pachhimrath parganas receives difl'erent names in different portions of its course. In this pargana it is called the Madha, in Akbarpur the Tons, and further east the Tamsa. In the Khandiinsa pargana, it has for a long time past been a rain stream only, and the water being used for irrigation after November its bed is dry all the rest of the year.

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The Bisens. From an early period this pargana was a Bhar and it remained so until one Deo Rae, a Bisen of Manjhauli, who was in the service of the then government, happened to stop here on his way to bathe in the Ganges. During his stay a quarrel arose between him and the Bhars at Bakhauli, which ended in his putting them to the sword and taking possession of the Bakhauli ilaqa. Subsequently his descendants made themselves masters of tappas Urwa and Khandansa, with other adjacent villages in the Mangalsi and Muhammadpur parganas, History.

principality,

of which, after the lapse of thirty-five generations, they are

still

zamindars.

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The Chauhdns. The Chauhdns in this pargana are a branch of the great family which held 565 villages in Pachhimrath, Isauli, Khandansa ; their histoiy is given under Pachhimrath. In this pargana they have not been so much reduced, as they formerly had thirty-two villages, and now have twenty-five in proprietary possession. The present is the 25th generation from the founder they too drove out Rajbhars and acquired their inheritance. Some Musahnan converts from the family are called KhAn;

zadas,

and occupy Sirseda.

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The Bhdle Sultdns. Rao Mardan Singh, Bais of Daundia Khera, in Baiswara, was a horse-dealer by profession. He chanced to visit Gajanpur, in the Isauli pargana, in the Sultanpur district, where there was a fort of the Rajbhars, and stopped there for some time. quarrel and fight took place, in which he obtained the victory and became master of the Bhar domains. His son Rd,o Bardr entered the service of the king of Delhi, and as he was a good rider and a clever spearman he obtained the name Bh^le Sult'm. He had two wives by one he had issue Raja Jai Krishn, whose descendants are zamindars of Dadra, in pargana Isauli and by the other Kunwar, Dadhich, and Baram Deo. The eldest of these was called the raja, and as their descendants increased and multiplied, they overran five kos in the Isauli pargana and nine in that of Khanddnsa, or in all fourteen kos. Baram Deo, the youngest of the three, separating from his brothers, settled in a village which he founded in the jungle on the banks Ambitious of obtainof the Gumti, and called after himself Deogaon. ing the title of rdja he became kh^nazad of the king of Delhi, and Of Rao Bardr's since then his descendants have been called khdnzadas. descendants the heads of two branches continued to bear the title of raja until 1257 fasli, viz., Rdja Bhure Khan, brother of Xzam Ali Khan, now lambardar, and R^ja Ali Bakhsh, and besides these B^bu Muhammad Husen Khan and Babu Gulzar Khan also held taluqas but in that

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