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the commissioner of Gonda and Bahraich, at Balr^mpur, and after keeping themfor a short time in his strong fort of Pathoan Garh, between the two Raptis, sent them, with a sufficient force for their protection, through the north of the district into Gorakhpur. He steadily declined to recognise the rebel government, and orders for the confiscation of his raj were issued,
which no one was found strong enough to carry
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by anarchy to plunder all the well-to-do people they could lay their hands on. Eaja Ridsat Ali Khan of Utraula raised a small force and expended his energies in re-opening the old feuds with his cousins, the descendants of Mubarak Khan. Ashraf Bakhsh Khan, the chief of Burhapara, after having harried his own pargana, joined the rebel nazim of Gorakhpur, and carried his depredations into that district. chiefs profited
The rdni of Tulsipur, whose husband was a prisoner in the hands of the English at Lucknow, called' out her levies, and vindicated her position as exponent of the traditional policy of her family, by murdering the chief men among her subjects, including her husband's general, and the next heir to the raj, whom she baked alive in a clay hut. Pirthipd,! Singh, the thakur of Mahnon, and nearest in succession to the Gonda gaddi, had been but the necessity of a strong left in charge of the south of the district hand to represent the central government was felt, and the begam sent in Raja Debi Bakhsh Singh from Lucknow, with plenary powers in the whole country which had acknowledged the rule of his more powerful ancestors.^ He fixed his camp at Lampti, on the borders of Manikapur and Mahadewa, where he was joined by levies amounting, it is said, to nearly twenty thousand men, and watched the course of events.
British force which came into the district were the Gurkhasv who crossed the eastern frontier from Basti. On the Tlie Gurkias cross news of their approach the raja's forces dispersed,
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meantime the main Oudh army had passed the Gogra, and commenced the campaign which swept the broken remnants of the rebel forces across the Edpti, and over the lower range of the Himalayas into Naipal.
The other taluqdars accepted the amnesty, but the rani of Tulsipur and raja of Gonda could not be induced to come in, and their estates were confiscated and conferred in reward for good services on Maharaja Sir The estates. Digbijai Singh of Balrampur, and Maharaja Sir Man Singh. rebellion the had put him during outrage whose Khan, of Ashraf Bakhsh beyond the pale of forgiveness, were granted to Bhayya Harrattan Singh, a GorEiha Bisen, who had commanded Sir C. Wingfield's escort. The historian of the last fifteen years finds nothing to record but profound peace, and an inconceivably rapid increase of population and extension of tillage. principle of assessment in the Nawabi, as may be seen in the case of villages held in direct management by Government Principle of assessofficials was that the Government took the whole of meat in the Nawabi. ^^^ landlord's share of the produce, remitting a proportion—never more than a quarter, and never less than a tenth—in favour of
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