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 252 KHE and Wahid Ali, sons of Ghulam Nabi Khan, raised a small revolt, but the chakladar, without troubling himself in the matter, simply directed the old zamindars now restored to reduce them. Abdulla Khan, Ahban of Jalálpur, attacked them in the village of Paridih, pargana Kasta, and all the chiefs on both sides were killed. Five villages were awarded as a rent-free tenure to the Jalálpur family as a reward for the bravery shown by its head. Two more sons of Ghulam Nabi now raised another disturbance, but they were seized by Hakim Mehodi, chakladar of Muhamdi, from 1804 (1219 A.H.), and sent in chains to Lucknow.* Again a widow came upon the stage. The mother of the prisoners proceeded towards Lucknow to intercede for her sons. Hakim Mehndi sent for her and arranged for the release of one son, Amán Ali Khan, who swore on the Koran that he would raise no disturbance, and was then grauted a small estate. When Hakim Mehndi was deprived of the chakladarship in 1820 (1236 A.H.), he signed a certificate that Amán Ali Khan had always got two rupees from each village in the old dominions of the family as tribute, and the new chakladar Param Dhan admitted the claim. Amán Ali Khan died in 1837 (1253 A.H.), his son Ashraf Ali Khan succeeded. In 1850, or seven years before annexation, he held only the six villages which had been originally granted by Hakim Mehndi, and if the English had then occupied the country, there would have been no trace except dim tradition of the great Muhamdi ráj ; but in 1851 the weakness of the Lucknow revenue system caused a number of villages to be handed over to taluqdars, and Ashraf Ali Khan engaged as a mere farmer for fifty-five. These he held for five years longer till annexation, and a perpetual sanad from the British Government has now secured him in their absolute possession. The converted Sombansi family acquired the estate by a simple act of fraud and usurpation, in 1734 (1147 A.H.). It held it till 1776 (1190 A.H.), just forty-three years; it was then dispossessed by the Oudh Government. for rebellion. For 78 years (till 1851) it had no concern with the estate in which many other persons acquired in the interval rights recognized by the law. Many jungles were brought under the plough by laborious Kurmis and Pásis; many industrious tenants were settled at great expense by enterprising Brahmans and Baniáns. Again, the rája held for five years ; and fortunately for him in that brief space the country became British territory, and he was made, to his utter astonishment, the proprietor of a large estate. As an evidence of what value this rája placed upon his own rights, it may be mentioned that just before annexation Fida Husen khan, the chakladar's brother, probably having secret intelligence that the days of the Oudh Government were numbered, wished to obtain some titular claim as a proprietor over the estate which he already held as a collector of Government revenue, he applied to the Rája of Mubamdi, who executed a deed transferring all his rights in the pargana of Atwa Piparia contain- • Sleepian's Oudh, IL, page 74.