BRt
299
and resides in one of them, Jagdispur, which adjoins Barheya Khera, and had a fort which was destroyed after the rebellion. Raj Gobardhan Singh is a cousin of, but is removed by several degrees from, the rani's husband he has two villages, and lives in one of them, Bijwa. Raj Guman Singh, who is a distant cousin both of Dalipat and of Gobardhan, and lives with the latter at Bijwa, has no separate estate in Bhur pargana, though he has in Nighasan but his mother, the Thakurain of AhlAd Singh, has one village. Rdj Narpat Singh, another member of the family, has one village. five villages,
One
Kardheya Manpur,
is owned by the old qanfingos of the the Srinagar frontier, was appropriated by Government at annexation as waste land, and after having been held for some years on lease by the zamindar of Patihan has been now decreed to Government and one village, Baragaon on the Srinagar frontier, which formerly formed part of that pargana, belongs to the Thakur of Mahewa. With the exception of the last three villages, the rest of the cis-Chauka portion of old Bhur pargana, or 68 villages, belongs therefore to the family of the Bhur taluqdars, who are Ghauhiin Rajputs, and 66 of these 68 villages are held on taluqdari tenure.
village,
pargana
one
village,
Gum, on
pargana are now the property of GovernMessrs. Saunders and Menzies to bring the latter is dead, the former their large grants into cultivation failed
Most of the grants in
ment.
this
The attempt made by
sold his share in the estate to Messrs. Jardine, Skinner, and Co., of Calcutta, and they are at present doing nothing whatever to bring the land into cultivation.
There are besides in Bhur 18 grants aggregating in Aliganj 7 grants do.
... ...
50,907 acres, 19,027 „
Grants in Bhi^r, old pargana, cis-Chauka portions.
