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eleven generations they remained peaceably there, keeping the Lodhs,
who
had been the original zamindars, in subjection. During this time they were joined by another family of the same clan, who followed them from Jagmohanpur, and settled in Parsandan. In the eleventh generation, the Lodhs who had never thoroughly acquiesced in their loss of position, suddenly rose against the Sengars, and killed the majority of them, but allowed the women and children to escape. The fugitives did not think it safe to go to their brotherhood in Parsandan but lied to Jagmohanpur, and returning thence with an accession of strength, the sons of the murdered Sengars, Askaran on Gopal's side, and Gurbir, on Jagat Sah's side, recovered their father's possessions in the country. Ever since the time of Salim Shah, the Pathans of Amethi Dingur, &c., had been growing very powerful, and had established their authority over a great part of the three parganas of Asoha, Gorinda, and Parsandan. This invasion has left its traces in the double names which a great number of the villages of these parganas bear, and the The Sengars, howoriginal Hindu name, and another the Muhammadan. ever, had returned from Jagmohanpur in such strength that they were no longer inclined to submit to these encroachments, and in a great fight near Bani, the Pathans were defeated and driven across the Sai.
Part of the Sengars who had returned with Askaran settled in Kantha, and the rest removed to Manora. The Parsandan family also broke up into two branches, one of which removed to Kusahri and received the title Thus the clan was divided into five of Chaudhri of pargana Gorinda. branches, Parsandan, Kusahri, Manora, and the two houses of Kantha. This, division remains to the present day, except that in Kantha itself, the
descendant of Jagat Sah, Umrao Singh, took a leading part in the rebellion, and lost his landed property, and Ranjit, descendant of Gopdl is now the From these four centres the families, branching sole proprietor there. The following statement out, founded or took possession of other villages. shows the number of villages possessed by members of each branch in
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Parsandan Kuaahri ...
Manora Kantha
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Eight Three Nine Eight
villages. ,, ,,
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Askaran's son Pranu had two sons, the youngest of whom, Kapdr, was He defeated Angad Singh, a Naihesta Bais for his bravery. The bard taluqdar, who attempted to encroach on his ancestral estate. commemorates his valour, and the power of his opponent, in the following
renowned
couplet
" Angad
tere Dhak men rahe na koi bhir, Bethar Eawat jab rahe aur Kantha rahe Kapur.
Angad, no man stood thine onset before, But in Bethar the Eawat, in Kantha Kapur."
ASOHA
—Tahsil Puewa—
Pargana Asoha Paesandon
District
Unao.
—
10 miles north of the tahsil station and 32 miles east of Unao. known of its foundation excepting that it was peopled nothing There is by a sage named Aswasthama* (a personage in the well-known poem Is a village
»
In the pargana
article
the foundation of Asoha
is
ascribed to Asa Rikh.
