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66 lords of the soil,

had taken refuge and maintained a guerilla warfare with

Hindu or Moslem. Ahrori; in Gopamau, was their main resinumber of their Chhattrl neighbours, like the English lords of

all authority,

dence.

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the Pale in Ireland, took part with them.

The following were the most celebrated n^zims and chakladars ruled any part of the district during the Nawabi

who



Fasli.

Nur

Khan Ambar All Khan All

Eaja

... ...

Sital Parshad,

a brave but

FatehAUKhan ... Ghulam Muhammad Khan

...

...

.. ferocious soldier ...

...

...

...

...

... ... Mehndi Ali Khan ... Eaja Gubatdhan Das Kayath ancestor of Rae Fateh Taluqdars ... Chand and Dhanpat Rae, ... Shekh Imam Bakhsh ... ... ... Amirt Lai Pathak ... ...

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1328-1229

1230—1233 1234—1236

—1235 Bakht Mai, a Kashmiri Brahman, was chakladar succeeded by Dila R^m from 1235 — 1251, save that

in 1230

Tandiaon.

of

He was

held 1240-1241, and Farid-ud-din Ahmad 1248-1249. From 1251 to 1254 Tahawwar Khan and Husen Ali Khan were chakladars then Shiu Nath, son of Dila Ram, succeeded, and with Kiddr Nath as his naib held till annexation in 1263 Fasli (1856).

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In Sandjla the consecutive chakladars were Cbaudhri Hashmat All ... ... .„ „. Murli Dhar,., ... ... ... ... Naqi Ali Khan, Nawab, with Kunwar Eaj Bahadur, naib in charge of division of the district ... ...

Khwaja Husen Bakhsh ... Chaudhri Hashmat Ali again

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...

1249 Fasli. 1252 „ 1255 1259 126O

„ „ „ to annexation.

These four chakladars changed in fourteen years, but the most com-

mended administration was, it is alleged, that of Naqi Ali Khan, whose naib was a warlike Kdyath who gained success by storming the forts of Jarawa and Ruia in

fierce battles.

Colonel Sleeman writes as follows, referring to Tandiaon " January 22nd, 1849.— Tundeeawun eight miles west.



The

country

and something between doomutee and muteear, very good, and in parts well cultivated, particularly in the vicinity of villages but a large level,



portion of the surface is covered with jungle, useful only to robbers and refractory landholders, who abound in the purgunnah of Bangur. In this lespect it is reputed one of the worst districts in Oude. Within the last few years the king's troops have been frequently beaten and driven out

loss, even when conamanded by a European officer. The landholders and armed peasantry of the different villages unite their quotas of auxiliaries, and concentrate upon them on a concerted signal, when they are m pursuit of robbers and rebels. Almost every able-bodied man of every village Bangur is trained to the use of arms of one kind or another, and none of the king's troops, save those who are disciplined and commanded by European officers, will venture to move against a landholder of this district and when the local authorities cannot

with

m



obtain the