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 288 SAL 100 O Shekh. 405 .. 94 199 There are three taluqas in this pargana, viz. :- 1. Núraddínpur Kanhpuria. 2. Azizabad 3. Bhágipur Newada Kanbpuria. The Núruddínpur estate comprises twenty-one villages, and the Bhági- pur Newáda estate eleven only. The name of the former is the old name by which the estate was known by its former proprietors, the Patháns, who were conquered and driven out by the Kanhpurias. " The Bhars of Salon. Here as elsewhere tradition goes back to the Bhars as the earliest occupants of the country. In Salon the traces of a masonry fort ascribed to them may be still found. The Bhars of Salon appear to have been no better than their brethren elsewhere: unjust, illiterate, and violent, they were a kind of Phillistines, whom the enlightened rulers at Delhi had to exterminate. Three Musalmans are said to have been commissioned to finish off the Bhars, and having done 80 they settled at Mustafabad on the banks of the Sai in pargana Ateha, where the remains of a large brick fort in fair preservation attest their residence. Many of the names of the villages are traced to them and their descendants. “ The Kanhpurias. - These worthies trace their origin to the famous Rája Mánik Chand (Gharwár), who once on a time gave a daughter in shankalp' to a Brahman who lived on the banks of the Sai. She bore a son named Kánh, who from infancy was marked for a wonderful destiny. His name is found in Kánhpur in the Núruddínpur íláda. Grown up, he drove out the Pathans, and his four sons occupied their estates. These sons were Ránas, Sáhas, Urán, and Parsed. From Ráhas the Kaithaula family and Rája trace their descent, and the other sons have their descendants in various places. The Rája of Tiloi in Sultanpur, adjoining this district, finds his ancestor in Sábas, Kánh's second son. This family acquired great power, and their estates are said to have embraced fourteen parganas, including Salon. “The elder son, Rábas, is the ancestor of the Náin families, and it is said that originally they had fifteen villages only, but they have been a pushing and aggressive family, and being not over scrupulous, they have gone on annexing till they have got fifty-two villages. They have of course separated from one another and hold distinct properties, but this is only as regards the acquired villages. The original fifteen villages are still com- mor property, and each branch has its share in the parent stock of the Pachinad estate. From Mr. Carnegy's “ Notes on the Races, Tribes, and Castes of Oudh," I extract the following regarding the Kanhpurias, which Mr. Carnegy records as " the officially accepted version of the history of the origin" of this clan : "This clan is said to have sprung from one Chuchu Pánde, a Brahman devotee of Bharat Dwaj in Allahabad. He is said to have been a man of great learning, and was held in high esteem by Hindu chieftains of every