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 430 MAL The Rajput clans will find hereafter a fuller mention in the histories of the pargana families. Many of their villages have fallen into the hands of the Pathán taluqdars, Ahmad and Nasím Khan; but they still hold seventy- six. Taluqdars hold fifty-three, of which thirty-six belong to the taluq. dars already mentioned. The rest are held chiefly by Maghal and Pathan communities, and a few still remain with some Brahman families and some of the lower Hindu castes. There are one hundred and eighty-eight villages in all. The taluqdars are-Nasím Khan (Pathán), of Sahlámau, Ahmad Khan (Patbán), of Kasmandi-Khurd; Makrand Singh (Panwar), of Kai- turia ; Thakur Sripál (Bais), of Baraura ; but the latter properly belongs to Hardoi; Rája Randhír Singh (Bais), who holds only three villages in tappa Dakláwal, and also belongs to Hardoi; and Chaudhri Hashmat Ali, of Sandila, who only holds one village by mortgage. The only two taluq- dars who belong to the pargana are Nasim Khan and Abmad Khan, who hold large estates assessed at Rs. 16,000 and 13,000, which they have how- ever acquired by transfer in recent times. The pargana was of old made up of the tappas already mentioned; it was one of those mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari, and was during the Nawabi included in the Chakla of Sandila. Pargana families. -- Ahmad Khan and Nasím Khan, Taluqdárs of Kasmandi-Khurd and Sahlamau, are two brothers, sons of Faqir Muham- mad Khan, an Afrídi Pathán of Rohilkhand. The latter came to Maliha- bad in the time of the Nawab Shujá-ud-daula, and was granted a piece of land for a house and grove in Kenwal-hár of the Qasba, by Makárim Khan, Amnazai Pathán of Bakhtiarnagar. He then took service in the Qand- hári horse, a regiment of the Nawab's that was commanded by Abd-ur- Rahmán Khan, Pathan, of Khálispur. He shortly threw this up and joined the Pindári leader, Amir Khan. In his service he l'ose, and when the Pindári wanted an envoy to send to the Oudh Nawab, Saádat Ali Khan, he fixed upon Faqir Muhammad Khan, and gave him an elephant and Rs. 6,000 for his road expenses. On reach- ing Cawnpore he heard of the death of the Nawab, and changed his route for his old home in Malihabad. He then got an introduction to Aghá Mír, Minister of Gházi-ud-din Haidar, and got a place about the Court on the pay of Rs. 150 a month; and eleven sáwárs were put under him. This became the nucleus of a regiment which he recruited from his countrymen in Malibabad. In 1235-36 fasli (1827 A.D.) be was granted the lease of the Malihabad pargana by the Amils, Gobardhan Dís and Param Dhan, And he held the pargana on different occasions from them till 1250 fasli (1843 A. D.), picking up several villages whose owners had defaulted. He got a lien on others, and in this way founded an estate which became known as that of Tharri Fatehnagar. In 1257 fasli (A.D. 1850) he died, and the two sons succeeded to the estate, which they divided. Ahmad Khan's was called Kasmandi-Khurd, and is assessed at Rs, 16,371 ; Nasím Khan's was Sahlmau, and is assessed at Rs. 16,017. The Amnázai Patháns of Garhi Sanjar Khan and Bakhtiarnagar---two villages close to Malihabad-were amongst the first of the Pathán families, who, subsequent to the Pathán settlement of earlier times, again entered