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had a daughter, who married Muhibbulla, descended from Makhdfim Bandagi, of Lucknow, whose descendants are known as the Usmanji Shekhs, and inhabit their muhalla in Dewa. From Qdzi Abd-ush-Shukur, his son, is descended the taluqdar Abid AH and others, who Uve in the Hajjdji quarter of the town. Abid Ali, however, did not acquire the bulk of his taluqa till the last years of the Nawabi rule. Baqar Ali, his brother, had been killed by the Bais of Qasimganj, and A'bid Ali, holding a post under the Government, was enabled to get his case laid before the king. The Bais were expelled, and a great many of the villages fell to Abid Ali. His estate now consists of the following villages
Sarayyan, Karaunda, Shahpur, Inayatpur, Muizzabad, Bahraula, Khurd, Qasimganj, Gur-Sadiqpur, and is assessed at Rs. 5,201.
His pedigree
Tera
is
Amu- Hisam. Qazi Zia-ud-diu married to a daughter of Shah Weah. Qazi Allahdad. Qazi
MahmM.
Qazi Abd-ush-Shukur. Qazi Ndthi.
Mir Muhammad.
Muhammad
Fasi'h
I
Abd-ul Ghani.
Abd-ua Nabi,
I
I
Abd-ul Ahad.
Abu.
Muhammad
Shams-ud-din.
Said.
I
Baqar
Ali.
Abid
Ali,
Wahid
Ali.
Ali Ahmad.
The
history of Naslr-ud-din, taluqdar of Tera Kalan, is partly contained in that of Shekh Abid Ali, which has just been
Nas£r-ud-din of Tera Kalan.
ffiven.
He too traces his descent from Shah Wesh, and pretends that his taluqa status dates from that time. The family, however, did not acquire any zamindari at all in the pargana till the sixteenth century, and, as in the Shekh Abid Ali, he owes the formation of his estate, and the very name by which it is known, to the disposal of the Bais property by the native government on their fall. A descendant in the fifth or sixth genera-tion from Shah Wesh was Qazi Mahmlid, whose daughter married Molvi Muhibbulla, descended from Makhdiim Bandagi Azim S^ni, the Lucknow saint. He himself was celebrated for his learning and piety, and was appointed a m/wfti, and to the post of tutor to the Emperor Shah Jahan. He was the first of the family that acquired any proprietary rights in the pargana of Dewa. Subsequently, he or his descendants got possession of case of
