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of thirty-seven villages. Bat their rights in these have long been over ridden by others, eleven villages having passed, into taluqa Mahdona, 16 into taluqa Maujadubanspur, while others are in the hands of mu4fidars and other independent proprietors. The Bais are still, however, the recorded proprietors of niauza Ashrafpur, and they hold minor subordinate rights in others of their old villages. I have no faith whatever in the alleged advent from Baiswara. The Bais were few even there 500 years ago, and they do not readily own such offshoots as this. I have no doubt whatever that this colony was of local origin.

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The Upciddhia Brahmans. One Paras E.4m Updddhia is said by his descendants to have come from over the Gogra 300 years ago, and to have married into the local Bashisht family. He acquired a proprietary title in eight villages in this pargana as his marriage portion, and to these he afterwards added four others. These villages all passed into the Mahdona taluqa about forty years ago, but Babu Eam and Jagmohan are still recorded sub-proprietors of the Usen muhal, which consists of two mauzas, and the family also hold petty tenures in some of their other villages as well.

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The Sayyads of Bhadarsa. Three hundred years are said to have elapsed since one Sayyad Zain-ul-abidin, alias MIra Zaina, the ancestor of the present Bhadarsa Sayyad family, of which Husen Baksh and Muhammad Jafar are the heads, came from Naishapur in the retinue of one of the Oudli Subahdars, and settled in Deh Katawan near Bhadarsa, where, as usual, he is said to have displaced the Bhars in the possession of 19 villages. These 19 villages, which were formerly on the Government revenue lists, were, owing to the exercise of holy functions by the Sajryads, made revenue-free in 1836 A.D. by Nawab Saadat Khan, arid the assignment has been continued in perpetuity by the British Government.

The shrine of the sainted Mira Zaina at Bhadarsa is still visited by considerable crowds on the 26th and 27th of Rabi-ul-Awal, who make Thieves, it is said, are detected by sending susofferings of sweetmeats. On their pected persons to bring away flowers from within the tomb. exit they are asked how many graves or recesses they saw within, and the guilty invariably answer wrong.

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The Kurmis of Maujadubanspur. Some seventy years ago, one Gharib Das Kurmi is said to have started from his home in Padampur, pargana

Lucknow, accompanied by his youthful son Tradition further affirms that for a time after their arrival the father and son obtained their livelihood by working as day The boy was labourers on certain fortifications then being constructed. of comely .countenance, and on this account is believed to have attracted the attention of the ruler of the day, Nawab Saddat Ali Khan, by whose order he was soon after enrolled in a regiment of youths kept up by that Nawib under the designation of the " Shaitan-ki«Paltan, " which may " the devil's own." The boy Darshan in time rose to fairly be rendered and at a later period, wheii he had arrived at man's be a jamadar, estate, he was selected by the same authority as one of the personal

Birhar of this

district, for

Darshan Kurmi.