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 MOH 515 1 nected with the invading force which, under Shekh Abul Hasan, in the middle of the 16th century, took the Amethi pargana. But it was pro- bably a later arrival; for in the third and fourth generation after Habib- ulla, we find Aurangzeb granting a farmán dated 1096 Hijri (1675 A.D.) to Shekha Daúd and Salem confirming them in the zamindari of Nagram which their ancestors had held. They early acquired three or four villages, which they still hold in addition to a taraf (portion) of Nagrám. But the Amethias did not entirely acquiesce in their deposition, and there is good written evidence that about the year 1130 Hijri or A. D. 1791, they attacked and possessed themselves of the qasba. And it was not till about this time that the Musalmans were made chaudlıris of the pargana. These Amethias, who belong to Kumbráwán, never forgot their old rights, and when the rebellion of 1857-58 broke out, the Kurmis of Nagrám invited them to put themselves at their head. The Churha Junwárs of Mau (Gautam Kaunáik).—According to their family history, the Janwárs of Mau came twelve generations ago from Ikauna in Bahraich under two leaders, Deo Ráe and Sohan Ríe; they must have come at about the commencement of the 17th century, they settled in Mau and Khujauli, which they received from the Ametbi Shekhs. Sohan Ráe died without issue, but the descendants of Deo Ráe grew and multiplied and colonized in all 22 villages, which, with the exception of two--Mau being one-they hold to this day. i Deo Ráe had two sons--one of whom, Sení Sáh, was the founder of Parseni (Senipur), and the ancestor of Thákur Baldeo Bakhsh, taluqdar, whose estate takes its name from this village. His second son was Bánke Ráe, and four generations after him were born Hira and Jáchi. The des-- cendants of the former hold sixteen, and the latter three villages. But it is probable that at this time they did not hold more than their ances- tral villages of Mau and Khujauli: for three villages, held by Jáchi's des. cendants, were founded one and two and three generations after his death, and he does not, indeed, seem to have held a share in any village but Maui A great deal of the country they colonized must have been jungle-land, for they seem to have newly settled nearly all their villages. Híra's des- cendants founded Púranpur, Baldi Khera, Indarjit Khera, Dharmáwat Khera, and Dharmangat Khera, and Jáchi's descendants Hulás Khera, Atrauli and Rahbán Khera, which villages embrace a considerable tract of conntry lying on all sides of Mau but the west. But it seems not unlikely from its name that Atrauli must have been originally a Bhar village. In Hulás Khera itself there are unmistakable Bhar remains in the large fort that lies in the middle of the Karela jhíl, Nothing of the fort now remains but its old site, but it was of considerable strength to judge by the size of the old dih, and must have been formed from the excavations of the large jhíl which surrounds it on all sides in the form of a moat. On the dih is a small temple to Káleshuri Debi, attributed to the Bhars. The remaining fourteen villages held by these Janwárs are said to have been old townships, but there seems to be no trace of their original owners, except that Dáúdnagar is clearly Musalman.