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 152 PAT The following extracts are taken from the settlement report: Mangil Chhattris are the original zamindars of Patti Dalippur, a family still exists in Adhárganj. Landed castes.- Pargana Patti Dalippur, as it now exists, includes 816 vil'ages. I give the detail of ownership according to castes :- Taluqdar. Mufrad. Total. Bachgoti 718 Dirghanai... Sombansi 6 Brahman Káyath 683 16 96 0 15 64 0 0 0 0 14 Bach Bhát Bilkharia Shekh Pathan 0 0 698 117 818 00 Total Government village ... Grand Total 816 DOO share 94 The 683 Bachgoti taluqdari villages constitute the following estates :- 11 Patti Saifabad ... share 20 9 Patti Saifabad... 20 Adhirganj. Dariápnr. Ráepur Bichbaur. Dasrathpur, Madhopur. Ishánpur. Urayyadib, Atgawán. The remaining fifteen taluqdari villages compose the Dirgbansi estate of Parhat on the Jaunpur border. There are less Muhammadans in this tahsil than in any one of the other three tahsils of the district. The Bilkharias.- At the time of the Rajput colonization, after the fall of Kanauj, and the dispersion of the Dikhit colony of Samoni, Ghaibar Sáh," fourth son of Jaswant, and great grandson of Balbhaddar Dikhit, migrated into Oudh, took possession of the fort known as "Kot Bilkhar in mauza Bilkhar (now included within the limits of mauza Ayyapur on the left bank of the Sai), and settled there. His descendants came to be known as Bilkharias. Whether this name was assumed from the place itself or from a famous Mahadea (still to be seen at the spot), called “Bilkharnáth," which was enshrined therein, must for ever remain doubt- ful. At this point I shall allow Mr. King to take up the history of the pargana. "The Bachgotis.- Imperial Hostility, which caused the destruction of the Bhars, indirectly led to the next scene of the drama. Alá-ud-din believe to be incorrect.
 * Mr. C. A. Elliott, in his chronicles of Oonao, gives the name as Khyrdj, but this I