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 448 MAN I am inclined therefore to believe, that if Manga] Sen was a Gautam chief and not a Bhar, his possessions were confined to a few riparian villages, and that the village to which he gave his name gave its name to the pargana, formed by the Muhammadan emperors from the importance rather of its Muhammadan proprietors than of its Hindu founder. These traditions are not without interest in connection with Mr. Car- negy's views as to the relation between the Rajputs of eastern Oudlı and the Bhars, These Shekhs of Mangalsi are the only people I have met with in the Pargana, who have documentary evidence of any great antiquity of family. The Muhammadan colonies are very few, and the Hindus, always more illiterate, have preserved no record of the remote past. Two hundred years ago, however, it seems the pargana was held almost exclusively by the great tribes of the Bais and Bisen Rajputs. The Bais divide themselves into tivo grand families, the eastern and the western, who, though they eat together, recognize no relationships, and retain the memory of bitter border warfare with each other. The western Bais say that thirteen generations ago Bikái Sáh immi- grated into the pargana from some place in Baiswára on the banks of the Ganges, and founded a village which he named after his son (Dallan Sáb) Dilwa Bhári: Dallan Sáb acquired a great tract of the surrounding country, and on his death his sons-Paune, Bhart, and Maichan-divided equally amongst themselves the thirty-six villages of his estate. Hence the western Bais are familiarly known as the Bais of the "chhattis." Bhart's descendants are the Bais of Bilkháwán, Maichán's those of Saran- gápur, Paune's those of Chakwára. But when the families had been sepa- rate for a generation or two they began to quarrel, and the Sarangápur men, the inhabitants of a vast jungle, and notorious robbers, gradually usurped the whole of Paune's share, except the one miserable little village of Chakwára-all that now remains to Paune's sons. Bhart's family held their own, and are now in thriving circumstances. None of these Bais ever attained to distinction. Mán Sáh, the fifth in descent from Maichán, took service at Delhi, and became a favourite of the emperor ; but it does not appear that he was ever advanced to particular rank, and lie made no attempt to use his influence to the advantage of his kinsmen. Sádi Sáh, another of Maichián's branch, constructed a fort of considerable size at Deora Kot, but I heard no special tradition of his valour in the clan feuds (vide Appendix A), The eastern Bais are of several families. The most important is that of Ráepur Jalalpur. The head of this line was Singh Ráe, the son of Rám Råe, of Ráepur in Baiswára. He and Banbír Rắe, who was probably a relation, are said to have settled in the east of the pargana, nearly at the same time that Bikái Sáh settled himself in the west. The two chiefs took possession of twenty-six villages each, the one making his head- quarters at Singhpur, the other at Banbirpur, and these Bais are conse-