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 436 MAL Salanki Rajputs and Sheklis are accordingly said to have come from near the same place. Tonk was the native country of the Salankis. But there are two stories about the Pan wár settlement here, while they themselves say they conferred the tappa on the present holders, the latter affirm that tbey drove the Panwárs out. The former story is however probably the correct one. The Panwárs were a formidable and strong body of men, and colonized a much larger and richer tract in the pargana (subsequently known as theirs) of Mahona. And viewing this with the fact that they all originally came from the same country, it is much more likely that they gave it up than that they were driven out. The leader of the Shekhs was Salábat Ali. From their equestrian excellencies they became afterwards distinguishedi as the 'Ghor-charhás.' They proved loyal in the mutinies, and, under Baqar Ali and Himayat Ali, gave much assistance to Mr. Kavanagh, of the Oudh Commission, in his fight against Lakkar Shah, the Faqir, who moved about the place trying to keep alive the rebellion. Jindaur itself is a village of a considerable size, where there is a large bazar held, and a Government school has been established. The Salanki villages have, most of them, come into the possession of the Thákur Makrand Singh, but four of them are held in sub-settlement. MALIHABAD Town*--Pargana MALIHABAD—Tahsil MALIHABAD-Dis- trict LUCKNOW.--This town lies in latitude 26° 55' porth, longitude 80° 45' east, and is situated on the road to Sandíla at the fifteenth milestone froin Lucknow, with which it is connected by the railway and a good metalled road. It is the headquarters of the pargana of Malihabad, aad contains a police station, tahsil, post, and registration offices and Government schools. The principal residents of the town are musalmans, and the Patháns of Malibabad have long been celebrated, though probably but few of the ori- ginal colonizers and founders of the different muhallas or wards are now left. But they pointed the way to subsequent adventurers, and were suc- ceeded by the Afrídi Patháns of Kenwallár, which is part of the town, and the Amnázai Pathans of Garhi Sanjar Khan and Bakhtiámnagar close by: The taluqdars-Nasim Khan and Ahmad Khan, are of the Afridi Pathans of Kenwalhár, and they built several handsome houses on the north side of the town, and bought and improved Mirzáganj. This ganj rose at first to be a large centre of trade, but it declined rapidly after the estab- lisbment of a market-place at Kánkrabad by Saadat Ali Khan, and the foundation of Newabganj near Mohán, district Unao. The usual trades only flourish now in a small way, and nothing worthy of uate is made save perhaps a species of tin-foil (tabaq) with which cheap bracelets and the Musalman fázias are overlaid, The inhabitants number 8,026, amongst whom there are 85 families of Pathans. The times are much altered for the worse for them, for their trade of soldiery is gone. It was chiefly from their ranks that Faqir Muhammad Kuan, the ancestor of Muhammad Naşim Khan, recruited his regiment of 1,700 sawárs. One of their chief means of subsistence depends on the numerous groves which surround the • By Mr. IL, H, Batts, Absistant Commissioner,