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 SIT 387 the great Tilok Chand is fabulous, and they have no commensality with the real descendants of that monarch. Bhíkbam Singh and Thána Singh came to Bahrimau, in Pírnagar, in the service of Diwán Kesho Dás, who was agent for Dost Muhammad Khan and Pir Muhammad Khan, at that time Subahdars in Oudh, and who held the lands as jágir. On the resumption of the jágir, thirtcen years later, Bhikham Singh and Thána Singh remained in possession as zamindars. For three generations the estate was undivided, but in the time of Jagat Ráe the estate was divided between his two sons, Kánh Singh and Madkar Saháe; Kánh Singh took the Kánhmau estates, and is the ancestor of the present representative, Mahraj Singh. The father of the latter was rewarded for loyal services in the rebellion by a grant of land of the annual value of Rs. 2,000, and was made Honorary Assistant Commissioner in his own estates. Jawahir Singh, taluqdar of Basahídib, pargana Bári. This gentleman is descended from Madkár Sahảe, brother of Kánh Singh, and is therefore nearly related to the Kánhmau family, of which Mahrá ingh is the present bead. Jawáhir Singh was rewarded for loyal conduct in the rebellion of 1857 by a grant of land of the annual value of Rs. 5,000. He afterwards was made an Honorary Assistant Comunissioner, but was allowed to resign office in 1863. He was convicted of taking part in a riot attended with loss of life in November, 1873, and was imprisoned. for seven years with fine of Rs. 10,000. Panwar Chhattris.-Harihar Bakhsh, taluqdar of Saraura, pargana Manwán, The family of this taluqdar came from Gwalior about A.D. 1602, and the three brothers, Malam Deo, Phúl Deo, and Mál Deo, from whom the family are descended, possessed themselves of large estates in Itaunja, Mahona, Saraura, and Nilgaon. The descendants of Malam Deo still hold the Itaunja estates in the Lucknow district. The last represent- ative of the family of Phúl Deo, Digbijai Singh, lost the Mahona estates for rebellion in 1857, and the descendants of Mát Deo hold the estates of Saraura and Nílgáon; the family estates of that branch having been divided by the two brothers, Binda Dág and Hari Dás, in the third genera- tion from Mál Deo. The Saraura family, of which Harihar Bakhsh is the lead, is descended. from Binda Dás. Thákur Durga Bakhsh, of Nilgáon, pargana Manwán. This gentleman is descended from Hart Dás in the third generation from Mál Deo. He was rewarded for good and loyal services in the rebellion of 1857 by a grant of land of the yearly rental of Rs. 1,000. Káyath. Thákurs Anant Singh, Jagan Náth Singh, Ganga Bakhsh, and Hardeo Bakhsh, taluqdar of Rámpur Kalán, pargana Biswan. The ances- tor of this family received in reward a jágír of 20 villages about A.D. 1150 from the king of Delhi, and he and his family have lived in Biswan since that time. Such is the family chronicle, but it may be remarked that Oudh was not in the kingdom of Delhi at any time during the twelfth century: