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 492 MAU themselves in his bands, and sent a wretched vakeel instead, who was instantly thrown into prison and ironed, as a gentle hint of what his masters might expect." About this time Chundun Lal's younger brother, Gungapershad, and his grandson, Balgobind, came from Cawnpore to Morawun, crossing the Ganges at Najjufgurh. Kasheepershad got intima- tion of this and sent his agent, Shunker Lal, a Hurha man, with a few hundred followers, to intercept them, Gunga pershad was shot dead with a ball through his chest, and Balgobind was knocked down by a shot which struck the handle of his sword. Thinking they had done their work, the assassins plundered their victims of a large sum of money they had with them (about. Rs. 25,000), and went off leaving Balgobind, who, with the rest of his followers, reached Morawun safely. Old Chundun Lal was not the man to sit down quietly under such an insult as that. He first applied for redress to the Vizier Nuwab Ali Nukee Khan, and being refused justice there went to Mr. Greathed, Magistrate of Ca He had a house and a good deal of landed property in the Cawnpore district, and could thus claim protection as a British subject, though residing in Oudh, Mr. Greathed wrote to the Resident, Colonel Sleeman, who at once took up the case and insisted on justice being done. The king at first was very much offended with Chundun Lal for appealing to the Company's authority to get him redress for an injury done in Oudh, and banished him from the country, but subsequently this order was denied when the Resident interfered, andit never was carried out. After a delay of about nine months, Kasheepershad was dismissed from his chukladarship, ordered to repay the Rs. 25,000 which he had plunder- ed from Gunga pershad, banished the kingdom for two years, and declared incapable of entering the Government service again. This was a very severe sentence, and nothing but the pressure steadily exerted by the Resident would have secured it. "Chundun Lal died in 1854 A.D. at the great age of 82. He retained his faculties to the last, but during the later years of his life the business was chiefly carried on by his favourite son, Gowrie Sbunker, the present Raja. Though Kasheepershad was punished, Gowrie Shunker did not recover the estate he had lost. After annexation a portion of it was settled with him, and in the talookdaree settlement which followed the rebellion be recovered all he had ever possessed. During the rebellion he behaved with the most unshaken loyalty ; both at Cawnpore, at Lucknow, and at the Alumbagh, his agents and relations were indefatigable in providing supplies and information, and no act of complicity with the rebel leaders has ever been brought home to him. As a reward for this, he was one of the six talook. dars whom Lord Canning's famous proclamation of March, 1858, exempted from the universal confiscation, and he has subsequently received the title of Raja." MAURÁNWAN—Pargana MAURÁNWÁN—Tahsil Purwa— District UNAO. --Lies in latitude 26°30' north, and longitude 80°58' east, and is six miles east of the tahsil, and twenty-six from the sadr station, The Basha lake the putineers let the prisoners out. He was caught lately hiding near his home iu Hurba, but bribed his police guard aud escaped.
 * The Nrib, Shunker Lal, was also imprisoued for life in the Agra Jail, and escaped when