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 RAE 235 Another story is told of a Bais zamindar who, when he was brought from prison to kachahri, made a dart at the sword which was lying before the názim's masnad and struck at his tyrant's head. The discomposed official rolled backward off his pile of cushions, the sword passed through his clothes, and the Bais immediately plunged it into his own body and fell down dead. We may perhaps congratulate ourselves that such scenes do not occur in our own kachahris, The taluqa of Girdhápur was got together by mortgage by a younger branch of the rána's house, who were originally zamindars of Říratpur Charhár. Of Kurihár Satáwan little remains to be said. When Gur Bakhsh Singh died childless, Rána Raghunath Singh managed to get bis ilága, and kept it till 1832 A.D. Fateh Babádur, the adopted son, recovered it in the succeeding year with the help of Rána Beni Mádho, who stood his security, and in his turn possessed himself of the estate. General Sleeman interfered, and Fateh Bahadur recovered it on the payment of Rs. 40,000 arrears. His son, Chandrapál Singh, him, succeeded and died immediately on emerging from the tutelage of the Court of Wards, Of Domandeo's descendants, Pilkha and Páhu remain. The original village of the first family was Jagatpur Kota, and their attempts to form a taluqa were not successful. Two small collections of villages were made, but both were almost immediately absorbed by the ránas, and they now possess little more than their zamindari inheritance. The latter house does not fall within this district, and when I was transferred to another, I had as yet made no enquiries into their history. Of Rudr Sáh's descendants, Daulat Singh of Samarpha engaged for only one village. His son, Lálji, began the foundation of a taluqa, and maintained it in two fights with the Názims, Jai Rám Pánde in 1820, and Qutb-ud-dín Hasan Khan in 1827 A.D. His wealth is proved by the fact that he built the great bazar of Lalganj, the central mart of Baiswara. The widow of his son adopted Basant Singh who himself died childless during the mutiny, and was succeeded by his widow Dariáo Kunwar. Almost the same story might be told with altered names for Chandania. Dalpat Singh, the ally of Din Sáh of Gaura, was temporarily driven out, and separate engagements taken for all the neighbouring villages. On the return of Lál Sáh, he too returned, and he and his son put together the ostate now held by Sardár Singh, At the time of Saádat Khan's invasion, Sadak Singh, the half brother of Chet Ráe, held the gaddi of Kurihár Sidhauli. His importance may be conjectured from his marriage with a sister of the celebrated rebel Bhag- want Rae Khícbar, and both he and his father ruled an extensive tract stretching from Bachhráwán into the heart of the Lucknow district, embracing, at any rate nominally, nine parganas. The direct line became extinct on the death of the brothers Bikramajít and Sikandar Singh, and a cousin who had been converted to Muham-