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restoring order in the Garotha tahsil towards the close of the Mutiny. Rao Udiyajit owns seven villages in the Jhansi district. He has a son and heir, Lachhman Singh, aged twenty-six years.

Residence. Kakarbai, Jhdnsi, North-Western Provinces.

UGRA NARAYAN SINGH, Rai Bahadur.

The title was conferred on ist January 1877, as a personal distinction, on the occasion of the Proclamation of Her Most Gracious Majesty as Empress of India.

Residence. Supul, Bha"galpur, Bengal.

UJAMBAR. See Ajambar.

UJJAL SINGH (of Dhanaura), Sarddr.

Born 1858; succeeded to the title, which is hereditary, on the death of his father, the late Sardar Dewa Singh of Dhanaura. Belongs to a Khatri family of Sikh Sardars, descended from Hazuri Singh, whose eldest son, Sardar Dharam Singh, was the grandfather of Sardar Natha Singh, father of the late Sardar Dewa Singh of Dhanaura. The younger brothers of Sardar Dharam Singh were the Sardars Karam Singh and Sada Singh, both of whom made considerable conquests in the Punjab the last-named being the conqueror of Dhanaura and the neighbouring territory, which descended to the posterity of his elder brother, Sardar Dharam Singh. The family came under British protection with the other Cis-Sutlej States, and rendered good service during the Mutiny of 1857.

Residence. Dhanaura, Karndl, Punjab.

UJYAR SINGH (of Gormara), Thdkur.

The title is hereditary.

Residence. Gormara, Seoni, Central Provinces.

UMAKANT DAS, Rai Bahadur.

The title was conferred on ist January 1889, as a personal distinction, in recognition of eminent services in the Political Department, particularly in connection with the State of Hill Tipperah (q.v. in Bengal. The Rai Bahadur holds the position of Assistant Political Agent in Hill Tipperah.

Residence. Hill Tipperah, Bengal.

UMBD KUAR (of Fatehpur), Rand.

Belongs to a Raj Gond family, claiming an antiquity, in the Hoshan- gabad district of the Central Provinces, of more than 900 years. The Fatehpur jdgir is said to have been conferred on an ancestor by Raja Kamal Nain, Gond Raja of Mandla, in 930 A.D. A sanad from the Raja of Mandla, dated 1500 A.D., is still in the possession of the family.

Residence. Fatehpur, Hoshangabad, Central Provinces.