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 156 PAT had been since Ráe Meherbáu Singh's flight settled with the villagers. He died in 1844 and left no issue, save an illegitimate son and daughter by two women. The son, Bisheshwar, is provided for in the village of Mehdcori. The younger son of Ráe Meherbán then succeeded to the estate and died in 1852, but not before he had added four more villages to the estate by revenue engageinent for them. He also got the village of Phenhán by fighting the Madhopur taluqdar for it. He was sueceeded by his son, Kilka, who died, as some say, by an aecidental discharge of a pistol, but, as others say, by his own hand, in consequence of discovering his mother in an intrigue with a servant. He was followed in 1858 by his brother, the present taluqdar, Ráe Mádho Parsbád. The residence of the taluqdar is in the village of Dalippur, some six miles from the head- quarters station, in a south-east direction." " The Bachgoti clans. It will not be necessary here to recount the family annals of each of the houses of the Bachgoti clan. They would be found more fitly in a history of the landed families of the district. My object in the above sketch has been to give a clue conneeting the chief house of the clan with the days of old, and to show how the other families have sprung from the parent stock. " Kishna Pánde.--I will devote a short space to the history of the Patti families in matters which, being of comparatively recent occurrence, may be of value to those whose duties require a knowledge of such annals. Sumer Singh, eighth in descent from Náhar Singh (whence Patti as a separate property dates) was a minor when his father, Dhír Singh, died. His factotum was one Kishna Pánde, whose family fortress is still to be found in Púrai Shiu Parshád, in the village of Kohráon in the Dasrathpur estate. He proved faithless. Instead of paying the revenue he embez- zled it, and then got the engagenient in his own hand, and ejected the hereditary master, who fled to Rowah. For twelve years Kishna reigned; but Sumer Singh, grown up, allied himself with the powerful Rája of Partabgarh, and overthrew and slew the treacherous Brahman, whose pos- terity have acquired an under-proprietary title in Párai Shiu Parshád from our settlement courts. “ The Dirgbansi.-- The pargana of Patti, constituted till its recent consolidation with Dalíppur, was a most remarkable instance of the con- terminousness of the property of a clan with the limits of a pirgana. There was not a single village in Patti which did not belong to a Bach- goti ilaqa till recent arrangements included the Parhat estate of Raja Mahesh Narain Dirgbansi* (fifteen villages) in the pargana. Neither was there one independent village. In Dalippur there are zamindars not Bachgotis, nor even Rajputs. "The old Bilkharia clan has a few specimens still in Patti, chiefly in the northern portion in and about the now extinct Aurangabad taluqa, where they hold eight villages. The only two Bilkharia talugas, those of the Rája of Umri and the Babu of Antú, are and have been for many years included in the Partabgarh pargana, of which we shall speak presently. Durgádág, second son of Rája Ramdeo, aboyementioned."
 * The Dirgbangi is said to be really an offshoot of the Bilkharia clan, descended from