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 SHA 327 Then his brother ransomed him. On his return home his kinsmen treated him as an outcast till he should propitiate the Brahmans. In spite of his protestations that he had not become a pervert during his captivity his brethren held aloof from him, and when at last prevailed upon to eat with him, drew a line of demarcation on the floor. Stung deeply with the affront, he renounced the faith of his fathers before them all, took horse for Delhi, sought the Sultan, told the tale, and announced his desire to become a Muhammadan, Whereupon he was admitted as a convert, was named Mián Dilpasand Khan, and honoured with a grant of eighty-four villages, among the chief of which were Fatehpur Goind, Aigawán, Adran- pur, Maujbala, and Loni. And in those days two and twenty Thathera chieftains still ruled fronz Angni Khera to the Sarju, against whom he warred with great renown. And he died leaving four song, of whom Mustafa Khan dwelt at Loni, and there his descendants are to this day; and Daulat Khan lived at Piani, and Jajhar Khan at Raigawán, and Mahmúd Khan at Jamra. The Bais under-proprietors of Bhairaia relate a third displacement of Thatheras in this pargana from Pairás and Deorás and the adjacent forest by their ancestor Pahalwan Singh, who, married to the sister of Raja Sat- mor, left Baiswara, and sought distinction in his wife's country. The Pande Parwars retained possession of Angni Khera and the neighbourhood till the reign of Aurangzeb. In an evil moment they plundered a convoy of treasure on its way from Khairabad to Delhi. The Sultan despatched Diler Khan Afghán, a distinguished officer, to repress the bandits arriving at Shahjahanpur, recently founded, and then, commanded by his brother Bahadur Khan, Diler Khan rode out alone towards Angni Khera to reconnoitre. Smitten with thirst he begged water of an ancient crone. The gift of two gold mohars loosened a garu- lous tongue, and he learned from her the strength and ways of the Pande Parwars. In particular he heard that on a certain date the whole tribe mustered at the old Thathera tank Ratauha to bathe. Returning to Shahjahánpur he mustered a strong force, marched secretly to Angni Khera on the night of the bathing, and surrounded and slew the unsus- pecting Brahmans. In reward for his skill and daring he was granted the whole of their possessions in pargana Shahabad and Sara in jágír, and became Nawab Diler Khan Bahadur Haft Hazari, or commander of seven thousand. His descendants held the grant rent-free till Saádat Ali Khan resumed it. In 1677 A. D., he founded the city of Shahabad on Angni Khera, filled it with his Afghán kinsmen and troops, assigning them jungle grants in the neighbourhood : and in the midst raised the spacious mansion known as the Bari Deorhi. Fifty-two wards or muhallas trace their present names to the followers who then built in the places on which they stand. The further progress of the family has been thus described by Captain Gordon Young in his settlement decision regarding the village of Dariapur,