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 KHE 261 by seizing upon the lands of his weaker neighbours. He attacked his nephew, Bhowani Singh, and took all his lands, and got, on one pretence or another, the greater part of those of his other relatives. "He died without issue, leaving his possession and military force to. Lone Singh, his brother, who continued to pursue the same course, In 1847, he, with one thousand armed men and five guns, attacked his cousin, Monno Singh of Mohlee, the head of the family of the fourth son of Dul Singh, killed four and wounded two persons, and in collusion with the local governor seized upon all his estate. Redress was sought for in vain.* At annexation Bhúrwára, with all Lone Singh's property, was included in the Muhamdi district, and although the rája's claim to most of this. estate was absolutely nothing beyond a usurpation dating from a very few years back, his position was hardly at all disturbed. Of his fifteen hundred villages and hamlets about seventy were restored to the original owners, the rest were granted to the rája. Notwithstandiug the lenity, or rather the partiality with which he was treated, Lonc Singh took an active partagainst Government in the mutinies, and for a sum of Rs. 8,000, actually sold the fugitives from Shahjahanpur to the Lucknow rebel authorities, having kept them in chains previously ncar his fort. He was seized, condemned to transportation for life, and, the entire estate forfeited. His fort though strong offered no resistances and flight to the Kukra jungles was his only resource. The estate war made over to loyalist grantees, and they still hold or have transferred thei, rights to others. Captain Hcarsey, Mrs. Orr, the Raja of Mahmudabad Mirza Abbás Beg, the Rája of Kapurthala, are the present possessors, not one of whom resides upon the estate, and the people are apt still to regret the overthrow of the great rája with his hundred elephants, who kept such state in Bhúrwára and Nimkhár. The pedigrees of both branches are abstracted in the accompanying family tree. It will appear that Lone Singh claimed ninety-five generations of ancestors between himself and the first colonist, Sopi. It is very probablo that much of this gencalogy, just like the title deeds, was manufactured to gratify the pride or aid the intrigues of the lord of Mitauli. The Hindu linc, it will appear then, has now been almost utterly pros- trated. I now revert to the history of the converts. In Alamgir's reign the Musalman branch of the family received very bad treatment. Báz Khan, who seems to have been even more simple than most of his line, was its head. His neighbour of Muhamdi, Sayyad Muqtadi, deprived him of the Bhúrwára estate as has been related above (sec account of the Sayyads of Barwar). The Sayyad and his successors, the Rájas of Muhamdi, held the pargana of Bhúrwára till 1200 A.H. (1785 A.D.), when the Muhamdi ráj was over- thrown, but the estates were not returned to their owners. Báz Khan and his brother Fateh Khan had left numerous descendants. The former had twelve sons, of whom eight left no issue. From one of the other four des cended Muhammad Husen Khan, who was the head of the family when 34
 * Siceman's Tour, Vol II., Dagce 97-99.