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 512 MOH and of Sayyads in Nagrám, who assert that they are descended from Malik Yusuf and Sayyad Miran of the early invasion. But the Bhars closed ap again, and the Musalman wave swept on, and they do not seem to have been finally driven out till the invasion of the future Amethi Rajputs, who came under Ráepál Singh at the end of the fourteenth century. This family was itself expelled at the end of the fifteenth century, as has already been stated by Shekh Abul Husen, the founder of the Salempur family; but another branch of Amethias, who had established themselves at Nagrám, suffered later, for according to the accounts given by the Sayyads, and documents still in their posses- sion, their ancestor, Habibulla, who they assert dispossessed them, could not have come till about A.D. 1600. Other facts render this pro- bable. Nagram was till a late date known as a separate pargana, and it can only have been their separate proprietorship of it by this branch of Amethi that made it one. The Shekhs pretended to a right to the whole pargana, and it seems that it was more or less recognized. For at a later date came a family of Janwars from Ikauna in Bahraich, who settled at the west end of the pargana in Mau and Khujauli; and allow that they derive their title from the Shekhs. This family at one time produced a further division in the pargana, and a new pargana was formed in 1218 fasli (1811 A.D.) and called Khujauli. Khujauli was in the jurisdiction of the Baiswara Nayágáon chakla. Nagrám was ruled from Kumhráwán in Rae Bareli, and Amethi, the head: quarters of which were in A.D. 1757 transferred to Goshaínganj,--90 called from a Gosháín commander of some Nága troopers in the time of Shujá-ud-daula, who was granted the pargana of Amethi in jágír, and built a ganj here, which subsequently gave its name to the pargana---was made Huzur Tahsil. After the introduction of British rule, Mohanlalganj, road from Lucknow to Rae Bareli—at which place Rája Kásħi Parshád, one of the loyal taluqdars, had built a handsome ganj and temple --Was selected as the best place for the centre of administration of the tahsil, and the pargana became henceforth known by its own name. A good deal of the tenure in this pargana is taluqdari. There are in all 171 villages, and taluqdars hold some sixty. The rest are held by smaller separate communities. The taluqdars who are proper to this par- gana are ---Chaudhri Nawab Ali of Salempur, Musammát Qutb-un-nisa of Gauria, Shekh Abú Turáh Khan of Dhaurahra, and Thákur Baldeo Bakhsh of Parseni. The principal remaining zamindars are Shekha, Chhattris, and Kurmis; the presence of the two former has already been accounted for. The Chhattris are mostly of the Janwár tribe. The Kur- mis have always mustered strong in this pargana, and having risen to a state of great prosperity have become possessed of a spirit of very sturdy independence, which they showed both in the Nawabi and on the occasion of the mutiny in our own tirae, Pargana families.--Chaudhri Nawab Ali, Taluqdar of Salempur. The ancestors of Chaudhri Nawab Ali, Taluqdar of Salempur, on the female on the