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 PAR 139 The following history of the Sombansis is taken from the Partabgarh settlement report :- As in the case of Patti Dalippur, the pargana of Partabgarh is co-extensive with the tahsil, It contains 634 villages, which are held as follows Talugdari. Mufrad. Total. Sombanei .. Bilk baria Brahman Baig 300 148 13 37 0 538 17 47 +11 Kágath Khattris. Raikwár... Bhít 199 0 0 Raghubansi Cliandwaria Shekh Pathan Faqir (Musalman) Christians 13 11 5 Total 401 set 298 684 1 The taluqas comprised under the 360 Sombansi villages are : Bablolpur. Sujakhar. Tirwal. Paispur. Dandikachh. Pirthiganj. Domípur. Núrpur while the four Bilkharia villages constitute the miniature taluqa of Antű, paying a revenue of Rs. 3,546-8. The Sombansis.--Partabgarh is the Sombansis' country. Beyond its limits they are rarely met with. Of course I except the other colony in the Hardoi district. Mr. Carnegy states that "the Sombans of these days give their daughters to the Gautam, Baghel, Gharwár, and Mainpuri Chauhán clans, and this indicates a bigher status than is enjoyed by the local Bais, Bisen, and Rájkumar tribes." Mr. W.C. Benett, C.S., in his report on the chief clans of the Rae Bareli district, has some interesting remarks about the Sonibansi clans, more especially in connection with the Tiloi ráj of Surat Singh (between 1670 and 1680 A.D.), and as they may serve to render more complete the history of the pargana as given by Mr. King, I shall offer no apology for transcribing them in this place. Mr. W. C. Benett's account of the Sombansis of Partabgarh.—“This tribe are found at the beginning of connected history at the fort of Jhúsi, near Allahabad. They have no further traces of an imniigration, and their tradition connects them for an indefinite period with their present dominions. The family worship is paid to five saints-four of them princes of the Sombansi blood, and the fifth a Gharwár Rája of Benares, who estate, which was couticated by the British Government owing to the discovery of a concealed gun in 1659. These grantees are entered in the lists appended to Act I, of 1869 and are therefore styled taluqduri in contradistinction to mufrad,
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 * These are all loyal grantees, having been rewarded out of the portion of the Sujákhar