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valour, loaded the two survivors with honours, and ordered them to select a rent-free j%ir of 14 kos circumference. They replied that, being Hindus, they preferred a jagir in the vicinity of Ajodhya, whereupon at once a farman was made out, giving them a jagir, extending from Tanda on the east
Marnapura alias Jalaluddinganj on the west, and from Chitwan on the to the banks of the Gogra on the north. This jagir of course they had to go and conquer for themselves, which they did, and their estate was made a distinct pargana, and called Pali. After the lapse of many years a Subahdar of Oudh ordered the Barwars to pay a revenue equal to one-fourth of the rental. Some of them refused to do so, and in consequence a portion of their estates, equal to the revenue demanded, was coniiscated and made into a distinct pargana, called Aurangabad-Naipur. to
Madha river to the south,
About 136 years ago an ancestor of Dalthamman Singh increased his by purchasing the two muhals, Tikri and Bharsari, consisting of 17^ mauzas of the Aurangabad-Naipur pargana, from their impoverDalthamman Singh is the representative of this ished proprietors. branch, Nddir Sah of the branch that owned taluqa Tandauli. possessions
The Barwars were notorious for the practice of infanticide. Two daughters of the chief family, who were suffered to live, have married, the one the Janwar ex-raja of Ikauna in the Bahraich district, the other, the Raikwar raja of Ramnagar-Dhameri in the Bara Banki district. The Barwars generally selected wives from the Palwar, Kachhwaha, Kausik and Bais* Thakurs. In 1220 Fasli there was a severe fight at Eajapur between the Barwars under Fateh Singh (ancestor of Nadir Sah) and Madho Singh, Taluqdar of Dera, The dispute was about the possession of taluqa Ahankaripur, which Dera claimed by purchase from the Barwars. Some 200 persons were killed, but Madho Singh gained the day, and has held the taluqa ever since. There isfound a goodly sprinkling of Barwars inmauzas Tandauli, Kanakpur, Note on raEBAnwABs by the Oitioiat- Salon, Dewapur, Kumbhia, Bhadauli, iNQ CoMMisRioNBK. Baraull, Mahrajpur and Chachakpur. of the family is oi'^:elll^!T^:i:'^Z^L^:n:r^ The Ch^hu branch mauzaS Dalpatpur, most nunjerOUS Bais origin. The one that they are an ofiFshoot trom Baiswara, the other that like Jurhi, Baraip^ra, Alapur and Maya, rp, the Bais of that ilk, they also came from pbpq marrv me mariy into the Drancnes ^'^^ two bran Mtmgipatan. They date their advent Same families, but not With each other, 300 years back, during which time they
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ly^:^ti:^t::^^:^l^:^ttl':Z. observed that the latter are not worshippers of Karia Deota. It is far more probable that Uke numerous colonies who are known as Bais in this district, they are of eqiaivooal indigenous descent, and both the Barwars and their brethem the Chahus are unknown, except in the centres where we here find them located.
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