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Bara Banki indicates the extent to which the Kshattriyas had displaced and 13th centuries. In 1030 a.d. the first Muhammadan invader of Oudh, Sayyid Salar Masaud, fought his way past Multan, Delhi, Meerut (Mirath), and Kanauj, to Satrikh in Bara Banki, then a city of importance and a frequented shrine. From Satrikh, Kintur, Narindgarh, now called Thahimabad, and Subeha, he drove out the Bhars, while at Sihali he defeated the Siharias, and at Dewa the Bhars in the nth, 12th,

The first permanent Muhammadan settlement been made at Satrikh. In 1189 a.d., the Siharias were finally conquered by Ausari Shaikhs; in 1238 Sayyid Abdul Wahid seized Johelpur from the Bhars, and named it Zaidpur. About the same time, the Sayyids of Kheoli, near Dewa, won the domain now held by them from the Bhars of Bhitauli ; while Bhati Muhammadans, from Bhatnair, wrested Barauli from the Bais Kshattriyas, and MawaiMaholara from the Bhars Rudauli was conquered from the Bhars in To the 15th century, when Oudh was 1300, and Rasiilpur in 1355. the battle-field between the Shark! dynasty of Jaunpur and the Lodhi the Janwar Kshattriyas.

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Oudh seems

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kings of Delhi,

is

assigned the military colonization of Dariabad by

Dariao Khan, Subahdar of Fatehpur by his brother Fateh Khan, and of

Kamiar and the Kalhans country on both sides of the Gogra (Ghagra) by Achal Singh, one of his lieutenants, an adventurer from Guzerat, of foreign, some say English, extraction. At the present day, the lords of 6 great taluks, and 20, coo Kalhans clansmen look back to Achal Singh with pride as the founder of their family and fortunes. In the same disturbed period, Haraha was garrisoned with Surajbansi, and Surajpur with Sombansi Kshattriyas. It is uncertain whether the great colony of Raikwar Kshattriyas in Ramnagar dates from this or from an older time. The annalist of Bahraich fixes 1414 a.d. (though Sitapur tradition Surajplaces it 200 years earlier) as the date when Saldeo and Baldeo bansi emigrants from Kashmir, taking a tribal name from their native village, Raika sought service with the Bhar Rajas of Ramnagar in Bara Banki, and of Bamnauti, now Baundi, across the Gogra in Bahraich. Each in time supplanted his master, and ruled in his stead. So founded, the Raikwar colony grew, and spread for 60 miles along In the reign of Akbar, gallant service in either bank of the river. Kashmir earned for the Raikwar chieftain, Harhardeo, the grant of pargand Sailak (now Ramnagar and Muhammadpur) in Bara Banki, and of eight other parga?ids, whole or part, in Bahraich, Sitapur, and Kheri. In 1751 the recent successful raid of the Rohillas, and the

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absence of the imperial troops in Rohilkhand, tempted the Raikwars to head a great rising of Hindus against

the

Muhammadan

Government. Prominent among their fellow-rebels were the Bisens of Gonda and the Janwar Kshattriyas of Balrampur. Marching upon Lucknow, they were met at Chulaha Ghat, on the Kalyani, by the