ALD Rana Sangat Deo had twenty similar circumstances, and of
sons,
whom
who
29 left
their
homes under
precisely
Baridr Singh was one.
There is this inconsistency however, that, whereas Rdja Sangat was only three removes from Raja Pirthwi according to the Glossary, there are sixteen removes between the latter and R^na Sangat Deo by the family tree.
Raja Pirthwi was killed at Delhi in A. D. 1193, while the advent of Bariar Singh into Oudh is described to have taken place in A. D. 1248. There are fifty-five years between the two dates, and assuming them to be right, there is every likelihood of the Glossary version being correct.
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Bariar Singh had four sons, here known by the names of (1) Asal, (2) Gogai, (3) Ghatam Deo, and (4) Raj Sdh. (Sir H. Elliott gives them as Googe, Gage, Ghatum, and Raee). Of these, in the Fyzabad district, we have to do with the progeny of the fourth, R^ja Raj Sah, who had three sons
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I. Raja Bhup Singh, Bachgoti of Dikauli, from whom descend, 1st, the Raja of Kurwar (one of the oldest principalities in Oudh), and the taluqdars Jai Datt Singh of Bhiti and Abhai Datt of Khajrahat, who are still called Bachgotis, whose history will be given in detail when I report on the pargana in which their property is chiefly situated 2nd Makat Rae's representatives, who hold Katawan, Mahmfidpur, and other villages This in pargana Sultanpur and 3rd, the offspring of Jai Chand Raj. latter had a son, Tilok Chand, who discontented with the lot of the younger branch, sought service with the Emperors of Delhi, voluntarily became a Musalman, and is the ancestor of the Khanzadas, the head of whom is the Raja of Hasanpur-Bandhua, in zila Sultanpur.
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Diwdn Chakrasen Rae, Bachgoti, the ancestor of the DallippurII. Patti house, and not connected with this district and
Ill.^-Isri Singh,
whom
all
Rajkumar
of
Bhadayydn,
zila
Sultanpur, and from
the Rajkumd.rs of Fyzabad descend.
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Advent into Fyzabad. It is believed to be about 250 years since the offspring of Baridr Singh, having become too numerous to find room on the right bank of the Gumti, and powerful enough to encroach on the property of their neighbours, crossed over to the left of Fyzabad bank, and by degrees established six colonies. The first of these was under Birbhadr SSi, who planted himself at Dera, and from whom the The second was Kirat Sah, at Nanamau, the rajas of that house spring. ancestor of the taluqdar of that ilk. The 3rd was Khande Rde, who fixed himself at Kayathwara, and from him the smaller communities of tappa Imlak descend. The fourth was Madhukar Sah, who got Meopur, and from whom the taluqdars of (1) Meopur-Daharwa, (2) Meopur-
Bardg^on, (3) Meopur-Dhalla, and (4) Paras-Patti, all spring. The fifth, Hari R^e' got Pakarpur, and to him trace back all the small clansmen the district. And the sixth. Jalap R^e, at of the south-east comer of Barw^ripur, from whom spring all the communities in the vicinity of
K^dipur.
