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 296 SAN The same services with several villages in jágír. In 1061 Hijri (1650 A.D.) his des- cendant, Sayyad Sád-ulla, was killed in an affray with certain Sribáscab Káyaths of the pargana, arising out of a dispute as to the ownership of the Manjhua. On the petition of the slain man's family Shah Jahan deputed Bahman Yar Khan to chastise the Kayaths. The task was very thoroughly done, and none of this family of Kayaths are to be found in Sándi. emperor bestowed the whole pargana, then consisting of 332 villages, on Khalíl-ulla Khan in jágír; but later on in 1093 Hijri (A.D. 1681), Aurangzeb conferred the proprietorship of the town and of forty villages which had belonged to the Kấyaths on Sayyad Fateh Muhammad and Sayyad Mu- bammad, the heirs of the slain Sayyad Sád-ulla. Sayyad Muhammad was the elder son and heads the bari taraf or senior line, while the junior or chhoti taraf (or saikai) traces its descent from Sayyad Fateh Muhammad, Since then the town, and the post of chaudhri and qánúngo have been held by this family, I learn from the Bhamapur proprietary rights record that the whole of (pargana) Sándi was at one time held by the chaudbris on a pargana grant fro he throne. This ced in 1194 fasli (A.D. 1843) or thereabouts. Then every village fell into the direct tenures of the old inhabitants. The pergana had been held by the chaudhris for nearly 180 years. The Oudh treaty of 1772 was ratified at "Camp Saundee." Vide Aitchi- son's Treaties II., pp. 83-84. SÁNDI*-Pargana SANDI–Tahsil BILGRÁM— District HARDOI.—(Lati- tude 27°17' north, longitude 80°0' east.) An interesting town of 11,123 inhabitants, on the left bank of the Garra on the old route from Sháhjahanpur vid Shahabad to Lucknow. For its history the pargana article may be referred to. Tennant, visiting it in 1799, complained of " the bleak, desolate, and dreary aspect of the country, where you are constantly sinking at every step in loose sand and blinded by showers of dust." Heber, in 1824, gives a more cheerful account, but under-rated the size of the place. " The country,” he writes, "through which we passed to-day was extremely pretty, undulating with scattered groves. of tall trees and some extensive lakes which still (4th November) showed a good deal of water. The greater part of the space between the wood was in green wheat, but there were round the margin of the lakes some sm all tracts of brushwood, and beautiful silky jungle-grass, eight or ten feet high, with its long pendant beards glistening with hoar-frost-a sight enough in itself to act as a tonic to a convalescent European, Sandee is a poor little village shaded by some fine trees, with a large jheel in the neighbourhood swarming with water-fowl. It was described to me as a very dangerous place for travellers without my present advantages, and I was told that from thence to the company's frontier the country bore an extremely bad character, and several robberies and murders bad taken place lately. The lake was half dry already, and would, they said, in three months time be quite so. As it recedes it leaves a fine bed of grass and aquatic plants on which a large herd of cattle was now eagerly grazing." • By Mr. A.B. Efarington, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.