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 230 RAE Why the owner of extensive property like this should not have taken the title of rája is not quite clear. But then it is not in the least certain that all these parganas ever did belong to Tilok Chand, Rae Bareli, for instance, is mentioned in the Ain-i-Akhari as the property of the Kanh- purias, Dalmau of Musalmans; if further, the southern parganas belonged to the Sangrampur or Murármau houses-how did Harbardeo's son come down from Sáthanpur in Khíron and take possession of an estate at Khajúrgáon in Daundia Khera ? It is also alleged (see Rae Bareli article) that the Bais did not obtain possession of that pargana till about the reign of Jahángír. It is not impossible that Tilok Chand, who joined the army of Bahlol Lodi in its last invasion of the Jaunpur kingdom* and rendered material services, may have been appointed Governor under the new dynasty of all the parganas which are recited as his property. His connexion with the Delhi monarch would account for his eldest son and probably himself only boasting the title of ráo, the supreme monarcha would not have allowed him to use the prouder title, the symbol of an equal sovereignty. Mr, Elliot's account of the successors of Tilok Chand is as follows:-- " Pirthie Chund's son was Deorai, in whose time, according to the Bais tradition, the worst disgrace which they had yet known befel the Rajpoots of Oudh. The head of the Buchgotic tribe, who till Tilok Chund's time had been premier Raja in Oudh, and in whom had been vested the right of confirming the title of cach new raja affixing the Tilok to his brow, left the faith of his ancestors and became a Mahomedan. Deorai swore that on no descendant of his should the Tilok be placed by the tainted hands of the pervert, and, with the consent of the brotherhood, his second son assumed the title of Raja, that he might in future place the Tilok on the head of his elder brother's family. From the eldest son, Bhyrudas, descend the Raos of Doondeea Khera; from the second son, the Řajas of Morar Mow; and the descendants of the third, Kulian Mul, are known as chhotbhyas or cadets. "Hurbiurdeo, the brother of Pirthie Chund, in the meanwhile went to Behar, and his two sons settled in the villages of Symbussie and Nyhesta in that pargane "These two in considerable villages gave their names to the branches of the house which sprang from these two brothers, and hence it is popularly said that the Tilokchundi Bais is divided into four branches, Rao, Raja, Symbussi, Nybesta; the two former being from Tilok Chund's eldest, the two latter from his younger son." Now then we have a distinct and remarkable contradiction between the Unao and the Rae Bareli traditions. The Unao tale contains internal evidence of its truth; it admits that after Tilok Chand's death none of the heads of the family assumed the title of raja. It admits that the family
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