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 38 HAR The following list is more recent, dating from 1874 : List of taluqdars of the Hardni district. Name of teluqdar. Name of talaga. Number of villages. Remarka. Government demand. Area in acres. 21,792 8,959 7,428 8 892 19,338 18,922 13,166 23 172 Chhattri, Bais. 8,546 Musalman, Shekh, 6,510 Kayah, Sri Båstab. 7,627 Shekh, 21,644 Ditto. 13,203 44,063 Katiár. 14. > Lálta Baksh Khajurahra & Aliápur, 24 Imtiaz Fátima Bibt# Kasmandl 9 Amar Náth Thamaria 18 Muhammad Amír .. Gonda bás to Auánat Fátima Basitnagar 29 Rája Díp Singh Sawájpur 23 Rája Hardeo Bakhsh, Katiári 47 Sayyad Wasi Haidar, Bhagetapur and Fa- riapur 22 Muhammad Ashraf, Asifpur 32 Bharat Singh Atwa and Nasirpur .. 45 Sayyad Fazi Rasul... Jalálpur and Daud- 21 Raja Wazír Chand... Sarwan Barágáon .. 30 Rája Durga Parshad, Ditto ditto 22 Dalel Konwer Bir a 14 Ihaslat Husen Kakráli and Arwi Rabmanpur 67 Rája Randhír Singh, Bharawan 53 Láig Singh Mandauli 4. 22,119 23,616 42,754 19,464 Sayyad. 21,429 Ditto. 44,654 Baig. por 7,478 21,020 18,876 18,430 7,906 24 039 18,918 16,852 Sayyad. Káyath Sri Bastah, Ditto, Bais. PP 63,867 23,169 81,163 26,708 5,468 Shekla. Bais. pea 5,710 Total . 482 364,925 360,351 Most of them acquired their estates by becoming security for revenue, by more or less forced sales, and the other wrongful means so often referred to elsewhere in these pages. Díp Singh of Sawájpur and possibly Rája Hardeo Bakhsh of Katiảri are the only acknowledged chiefs of clans, the only men whose taluqdari title does represent and enabody a real feudal power and influence over their subjects. One or two of the smaller es- tates, however, are very old and real allodial properties. The Sayyads of Bilgram acquired their estates by purchase about two hundred years ago for the most part, Colonel Sleeman mentions the Sandíla landlords in the following terms:- " The baronial proprietors in the Sundeela district are Murdan Sing, of Dhurawun, with a rent-roll of Rs. 38,000; Gunga Buksh, of Atwa, with