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 516 MOI Their history would show these Janwars to bave been an aggressive and enterprising family, and on one occasion they carried their natural proclivities so far as to attack and plunder some of the king's treasure that was being conveyed to Delhi, and to have earned by this their cogno- men of the chorahas or 'plunderers.' One of the family, Niwáz Sáh, grandson of Híra, rose in the latter days of the Delhi empire to command of a considerable body of troops, but their history is otherwise entirely local. Thákur Baldeo Bakah, Taluqdar of Parseni.This taluqdar is a Janwar of the Mau family, and descended from Seni Sáh, one of the two sons of Deo Ráe, the leader under whom the Jan wárs migrated from Ikauna, twelve generations ago. Seni Sáh seems to have separated from Mau, and to have founded Parseni or Senipur for himself. An offshoot of this branch are the Janwárs of Jabrauli in Nigohán Sissaindi, The family did not rise to any importance till time Rám Singh, five generations later. Rám Singh took to money-lending, and made himself useful to the Chakladars. But the family again declined till the time of Jhabba Singh, his grandson, who became agent and manager for Chandan Lal, the Khattri banker of Maurán wán, in the Unao district, During the mutinies he rendered valuable assistance to the British force stationed at Alambágh in forwarding supplies and information. He was rewarded with one of Hindpal Singh's confiscated estates of Akohri, Sidhauli in Unao, and a remission of ten per cent, on his land tax as one of the six loyal taluqdars. MOHANLALGANJ—Pargana MOHANLALGANJ—Tahsil MOHANLALGANJ - District LUCKNOW.—Mohanlalganj is situated at the 14th milestone from Lucknow on the road from Lucknow to Rae Bareli. Mau, or as it is generally called "Chorhan-ká-Mau," is the old village on the land of which Mohanlalganj has been built, and is noteworthy on that account rather than for any history of its own. Mau was founded and inhabited by a tribe of Choraha Janwárs, who colonized this and some of the neighbouring villages, and in the Nawabi held an undisturbed and undisput possession, But this did not always include engagement for the Government revenue, and the village was eventually conferred on the taluqdar, Rája Káshi Parshád, who in 1859 A.D. built a ganj, which he called after his bygone ancestor Mohanlal, and erected a temple of Mabadeo. The ganj is now a thriving centre of traffic. In addition to the Lucknow and Rae Bareli road which passes through it, it is crossed by the road from Goshainganj, which joins the imperial road to Cawnpore and Bani Bridge. The yearly bazar sales amounted to Rs. 45,200, consisting chiefly of grain and country cotton stuffs. The population consists of 3,674, and is almost entirely Hindu. proportion is agricultural. One of the three tahsil stations in the Lucknow district is situated here, and, since the founding of the Rája Kashi Parshád's bazar, it has given its name to the tahsil. Outside the ganj is the police station at which a police force is kept of one inspector, three subordinate officials, and eighteen constables, to guard an area amounting to 175 square miles, and a population of 568 to the square mile, Inside the ganj is a A great