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 CHAPTER VI.

Rajah Roghudeb Rai Mahasai.

Rameswar died early in the beginning of the eighteenth century, leaving him surviving, three sons, viz: Roghudeb, Mukunda and Ramkrishna. These brothers did not live as a joint undivided family. On a partition taking place among them, Roghudeb, being the eldest, got, in right of primogeniture which has always been respected in this family, one-half of the property left by Rameswar, while the other two jointly got the other half; in other words, of the two-thirds of the parent estate received by Rameswar, Roghudeb got one-third and his two brothers one-third in common. This one-third, again, being sub-divided, Mukunda being the elder of the two got nine annas and Ramkrishna seven annas only.

It would appear that in the partition which had taken place between Rameswar and his brother Basudeb, pargana Arsha, the biggest of the estates of the family had in its full integrity fallen to the share of the former and he died possessed of it whole and entire. Similarly, Basudeb became absolute owner of pargana Boro, which had fallen to his share. Subsequently, the sons of Rameswar, having chosen to separate their patrimony, it became necessary to break up pargana Arsha, and, accordingly, a considerable portion was carved out of it and along with a large part of Boro formed into a separate Zamindari, which, to use the language of the famous Fifth Report of the Select Committee, was called "Zamindary Kismateah Mahomedameenpore." The estate, so formed, was a very big one, as would appear from the single fact of the Ausil and Towfeer thereof having been in the year 1172 A.B., that is, nearly twenty years after its formation, 206, 325 Sicca rupees. On the partition which took place between the two younger sons of Rameswar and his two nephews, the former got Mahomedameenpore proper in the proportion of ten and six annas, and the latter got Boro in the proportion of nine and seven annas. All these particulars would appear from the celebrated Fifth