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294 KUR Pargana families--Chaudhri Musáhib Ali and Karim Baklısh, joint taluqdars of Dinpanáh belong to the qasba of Kursi. They are descended from Muhammad Mustafa, who, in the tinie of Akbar, was made chaudhri of the pargana. They now hold six villages assessed at Rs. 7,848-8-0. They are half of Kursi, Bhadasia, Khágipur, Dinpanáh, Kharsára, Ghug- tir, Bachgalini. The pedigree is : Muhammad Muhsin. Farid Muhamınd Salih. Razi. Khoandan. Mulammad Mustafa. Qulb-ud-din. Shekl Iuhammad Ilzuud. Fazl Rasul. Munín Zámin. K Mabammad. Asadulla furás. Abu 'Turás. A kbar, Muhammad Niwíz Jáfar Ali. Dogt Altzhammad. Saajat Ali, Gliylím Murtaza. Ilasan Ali. Susahib Ali. Karíın Baklısh, Qúsini Ali, Karim Bakhsh. Bakhsh Nabi akhsh. Abd-ur-Rahim. And-ul lakin. Razzie Bakhsh. Mehndi Husen. Hádi Jlusen. The Khenchis of Dhaurahra (Gotr Buch).-—This is a family of Rajputs holding an estate of seventeeu villages, or 81 by recent demarcation, to the north of the pargana. They came under Rája Singh, some seven generations ago Rája Singh is said to have taken service with the Sayyads of Salemabad. These Sayyads had colonized a tract of twenty-two villages, which was known as the tappa of Salemabad. One by one the Khenchis got posses- sion of them. Rája Singh took an old deserted Bhar dih, called Dhau- rabra ; it appears he got it on mortgage. There he built him a house and founded a hamlet. This was all that was done for a time; but by the third generation their family had acquired several more of the Sayyad villages by similar transfers. Mir Ahmad Hasan, otlierwise Mir Bänke, of the Sayyad house, then attacked the Khenchis, and killed seven of hem, But three boys escaped, and went to their unclo Kenwal Singlı,