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 514 MOH sprung:—who preceded them in the occupation of the pargana, and had also come from Madina. They date their settleinent from the time of their ancestor Shah Rafi-ud-dín, under whom they migrated from Delhi, and settled in Mohanlalganj to the north of the pargana near Amethi. Shah Rafi-ud-din had a son, Nizám, who founded Nizampur and married a daughter of the bouse of Malik Yusuf, one of the officers of Sayyad Masaúd's army of A. D., 1030, who had escaped the annihilation that befel the rest of the invading force, and had maintained his residence in the town of Amethi, which had fallen into the Musalmans' hands. Shekh Nizam had three sons:- (1.) Shekh Tahir, who founded Tahirpur, attained to wealth and the qinungoship of the pargana, and added Gauria and other villages to his ancestral property. The present representative, Musammát Qutub-unnisa, is descended from this branch of the family, and holds Gauria and four other villages. (2.) Shekh Ibráhím, whose descendants-Máshúq Ali and others-hold Mahmudabad, in which their ancestor, Shah Rahím-ud-din, first settled, and four other villages. (3.) From the third son, Shekh Husen, was descended Musahib Ali, who played too conspicuous and persistent a part in the rebellion of A.D., 1857, and lost his ancestral estate, the taluqa of Dhaurahra, of six villages lying on the banks of the Gumti, which was confiscated and conferred on Abdul Ali, who made a gift of it to the taluqdar Abú Turáb Khan, an account of whom will be presently given. Only one of the descendants of Shekh Husen, Tufail Ali, holds Fatehpur, which his ancestors founded. Musammát Qutub-un-nisa holds five villages assessed at Rs. 4,595. Mirza Abú Turáb Khan, Mughal, Taluqdar of Dhaurahra.-This taluqdar has no history that belongs to this pargana. He was a son-in-law of Munnawwar-ud-daula, and the estate of six villages that he holds belong. ed to Musáhib Ali, of the pargana qánúogo's family. This latter was a persistent rebel, and with a strong band of Kurmis and local bad charac- ters kept the rebellion alive on his own account, but he and the Kurmi leader Khushál Chand were slain in a fight at Salempur, and his villages confiscated. They were conferred nominally on Abdul Ali, a chela (slave) of Munnawwar-ud-daula, but this was an arrangement inade to suit the Nawab. Abdul Ali soon went on a pilgrimage to the Karbala, and the estate was transferred under a deed of hiba (gift) by Abdul Ali to. Mirza Abú Turáb Khan, the present taluqdar. His villages in this pargana are assessed at Rs. 4,091. Chaudhri Azam Ali of Nagram.-Chaudhri Azam Ali is said to have come from Khojid in Arabia, twelve generations ago, un der Shekh Habib ulla, and to have driven out the Amethias, who then held the pargana of Nagrám, under Jaipál Singh. This Musalman family was probably con-