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 34 HAR No less than thirteen of the twenty-four clans have large landed inter- ests The Raikwárs lost 64 villages in Bálamau after the mutiny through the confiscation of the property of their leader Narpat Singh. There is a great Katiár colony in the extreme north-west of the district; passing east we find an ancient Sombansi settlement; south of it a Raikwár and Chandel colony; still further east we find the Gaurs holding the centre of the district; the greater part of several parganas to the south forms the settlement of Sakarwárs, Nikumbhs, and Bais; to the east Gopamau, formerly belonging to the Abban kingdom (vide Kheri article), now broken up among a number of clans; while to the north the Panwars hold most of Pachhoha. The tribes in some cases acquired such exclusive possession of the land that the parganas were made coterminous with their boundary, or nearly Vide following table :- SO. Name of pargana. No, of villages. Leading clan. No. of villages hela by it. Guada .. 117 Bais & L Kályánmal 72 Sakarvár + 63 Sara ... 85 Q Grur 63 Katíari • 80 Katiár 6 1. Alamnagar . 43 Nikumbh 224 Páli .. 92 Sombangi . 62 Barwan E. ON 69 Ditto 68 In other cases parganas were formed from the lands surrounding or within easy reach of some Musalman town, like Shahabad, Bilgrám, Sandila, Mansurnagar; in other cases again, as in that of Gopamau, the pargana represents, not the possessions of a clan, but the ancient dominion of a chief. In Hardoi, unlike Partabgarh, no ono clan acquired predominance over such an extensive tract of country that it now constitutes a tahsil. The point will bo dwelt on in connexion with the comparative absence of the feudal or rája element in Hardoi society. Division of landed property.—The landed property in this district is more ovenly divided under the different tenures than is usual in Oudh. The distribution is as follows: Taluqdari 395) Zamindari 795) Pattidari The following is the distribution among the different clans and castes - Chhattri 2,157 Musalman 4083 Brahman Káyath 157) Gosbáíu Ahir Kumi 763 se 1603 4 6 16 140 !