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the villages are deserted and in ruins not a single chhappar (thatch) is to be seen for miles and miles. Kalian Khan, the elder rdni's karinda, about four years ago burnt down the whole of the villages in the district
At annexation
the rightful heir was of course admitted to engage, and Mehndi Quli Khan and his party had to retire into ^^*^^" seclusion. It was not long after re-occupation however before they again appeared in Ndnpdra. The Lucknow
para-
The
natural capabilities of this ilaqa are such that it is impossible but that the estate should prosper, and within the last ten ^The increasing prosyears the cultivation has been extended 84 percent. pen y o e es ate. ^fhile its revenue has been increased 120 per cent. It
now numbers no
less
than 286 villages
(
hadbast ).
Shortly before Madar Bakhsh's death in 1807 A. D., the Gujiganj taluqdar, Dariao Singh, the great grandson of Rudr Singh, The fate of the brother of Maha Singh of Ikauna, had by his reqa. "Jifian] cusancy drawn down upon himself the strong hand of Sa^dat Ali Khan. He was attacked in 1806 A. D., by a confederacy of the neighbouring nobles, acting under orders from Lucknow, was crushed, andhis estate divided among the taluqdars of Nanpara (Madar Bakhsh), of Piagpur (Himmat Singh), and of Charda (Duniapat Singh). They first took the villages which lay on the eastern border of his estate about Dandi Kusan, the Pidgpur man got the southern portion of the du£b between the Bhakla and the Rapti, now called the Malhipur estate, and Duniapat Singh, (nephew of Himmat Singh), who had managed during the period that had elapsed since the date of the clearing lease to make himself independent of his uncle, added to Charda the Jamdan villages which formed the northern portion of the same duab.
The The
now yearly increased in importance, and, as ^^^ growth of their estates_ was but little affected by the changes in the administration which materially influenced the position and landed interests of the S'"®^* zamindars of the more southern portion of the district, it will be better to follow their annals to the
taluqdars of the north
progress in the materially the by ^^^ ^^'
north not afiected
_
mi^ftTation
close of the
Nawabi.
The
Sujauli pargana at this time, i. e., prior to 1816 A. D., was almost entirely held by Banj^ras, who refused to pay tribute to any one. In Himmat Singh's patta, dated 1788 A. D. Aijun Singh, a Banjdra, is mentioned as holding 155 villages, while no less than 800 villages were deserted owing to the, raids of these very fierce
The
Sujauli (Dharmanpur) pargana.
foresjiers.
Some
years after this, the Dhaurahra Raja, on the other side of the river, to get a footing in the Bharthapur and Amba Tehri ilaqa which now form the northern portion of the Dharmdnpur pargana, and the Isdnagar taluqdar, who was of the same house as the Dhaurahra man, obtained a similar hold on a tract in the south of the pargana, 'wrhich was all nominally included in one village, Mangauria. The centre .pprtion, of the pargana, however, was still held by the Banjaras.
managed
