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 290 SAL whose kings the brothers, Tiloki and Biloki, were left dead on the battle- field. Their names are preserved in the neighbouring villages of Tiloi and Biloi." The seniority of the Kaithaula family over that of Tiloi.—Ráhas was the eldest son of Kánb, the assertions of the Tiloi family notwithstanding, and his immediate descendants find their representative in Raja Maheshwar Bakhsh, taluqdar of Kaithaula. The Raja of Tiloi is descended from Sáhas, the second son, whose posterity in the race for wealth and power very soon outstripped that of the eldest son, Ráhas, and so came to be the dominant family. Whilst the head of the houses of Tiloi has always figured prominently in the history of these parts; the family of Kaithaula have remained in comparative obscurity. Muhammadan settlements.—The Shekh, Sayyad, and Pathán settle- ments are all offshoots from Mánikpur, established at various periods between A.D. 1030 and 1762. They present no particular features of interest apart from the history of the parent colony. Mr. King continues :- "Jáger of Bahu Begam.—The Salon pargana was part of the vast estates held, as 'jágír by the Bahu Begam, wife of Shujá-ud-daula, and mother of Asif-ud-daula. She died on the 23rd Muharram 1223 fasli, (1816 A.D.). Salon was conferred on the queen of the reigning sovereign, Gházi-ud-din Haidar. She was Pádsháh Begam, who, espousing the cause of her grandson, Munná Ján, in his attempt to secure the succession to the throne, after Nasir-ud-dín Haidar's death, was defeated by the firmness of the resident, Colonel Low, as is related in Sleeman's tour through Oudh, Vol. II., Chapter IV., and departed to the Fort of Chunar with Munná Ján, where both were kept prisoners of State. The Begam and her grandson both died there. Religious endowment at Salon.—There is a Muhammadan religious endowment at Salon which rose thus “Shah Pir Muhammad, juhabitant of muhalla Adhan, of the city of Jaunpur, went to study at the feet of thc Mánikpur saint, Pír Karím, who made him his chela or spiritual son, and sent him to Salon to the dargah and tomb of the martyr (Shahid), Pírán Parontá, a companion, it is said, of the renowned Sayyad Salár of Bahraich fame. At Salon the chaudhris allotted him a post under a red tamarind tree, and his name and fame spread. The Emperor Alamgir (Aurangzeb) gave him revenue-free lands, and the grants have been not only respected and confirmed by subsequent rulers (such as Saadat Khan, Asif-ud-daula, and the Pádshah Begam; but increased. They are confirmed by the British Government and are repre- sented by eleven villages and some chaks or hamlets, of which the annual value may be estimated at Rs. 16,000 at least. It is probably not less than Rs. 18,000. The grants cxtend into the Kunda Tahsil of the Partab- garh district, where they consist of thirteen villages and hamlets, of which the annual revenue is about Rs. 7,000, so that this cndowment is worth about Rs. 25,000 per annum. "Former official divisions.—Salon gave its name to a Chakla of which the extent varied at different times. Either the arrangements regarding 12