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 272 KHE 2 17 68 4 20 2 13 12 19 11 31 Basára, and Srinagar. The head of this fainily lived at Karanpur in Kheri pargana, and was named Chaudhri Mihmán Sáh: he had a daughter. Hulsa and Maldeo, younger song of Baisinghdeo, Chauhán rája of Múran in Jaipur, after their father's death (in 1537), entered the service of Nawab Badar Jahán, and were sent to reduce the rofractory zamindars of Kheri, which had beon given as jágír to the Sayyads. Hulsa married the only daughter of Mihmán Sáh, and his son succeoded Mibmán Sáh in the proporty whatever it was. The Chauhans took the name of his father-in- law, and based their claim upon the connoction. This story is evidently fictitious, as the Sayyads were not granted Kheri till the 17th century. The elder branch of the family is represented by the rája of Kaimahra, Narpat Singh, thirtoon generations in descent from Hulsa. Rája Ajab Singh, his father's cousin, was the first of the family ennobled, but the title was conferred by the tribes only about forty years ago; the present is the second rája. In 1849 Anrudh Singh of Del was made a rája by the king of Oudh; he is really the head of the clan owing to his great wealth and ability. His property consists of 168 villages as follows:- 75 in pargana Kheri. Srinagar. Paila. Bhúr. Dhaurabra His Government revenue under the new assessmont is Rs. 117,114. The Thákur of Mahewa has a large estate in the same pargana; he holds 113 villages and pays Rs. 77,910. The Rája of Kaimahra, Narpat Singh, has not augmented the original possessions of the family, and has only 31 villages paying revenue Rs. 25,000. He is the son of Rája Jodh Singh mentioned in Sleeman's Tour, Volume II., page 3. In the whole par- gana of Kheri proper there are 161 villages owned by Janwars. Kayaths .. Musalmans Bralimang Gobháín Englieh In Basára there are 32 villages owned entirely by Janwars. The Janwar family never was of any political importance; but its his- tory is valuable as showing how a respectable chaudhri, with a dozen vil- lages, added estate to estate, and the family has now become the owner of vast property. Their influence is only derived from wealth, and con- nexion with Government; there are not more than fifty or six Janwárs of the Chauhan stock alive. A much larger number of the original Jan- wars still exist, but most of them have been converted to Muhammadanism, and have been badly troated by their more powerful brethren. The Kayaths in the pargana produce a sanad from Akbar granting them seventy-four villagos; but it is a forgery of the coarsest description. They are numerous and influential however, and have no doubt lived . LE 138 138 16 2 2 1 2