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432 MAL Farrukh-siar's land measure, and money coined in his name. He annexed an estate amounting to upwards of a hundred villages, and the same sovereign conferred on him a jágir of three lakhs of rupees, which he shared with another general (Nasím Khan). But in the time of Safdar Jang, this family fell into disgrace. Whilst the Nawab Wazir was in Delhi, Ahmad Khan Bangash, of Farukhabad, made an attack upon his dominions, and was encamped on the Cawnpore side of the Ganges. The Nawab's lieutenant went to meet him, and Makarim Khan, a son of Shamsher Khan, dutifully attended with his con- tingent, but his nephew Diláwar Khan had quarrelled with him, and had crossed the river to the enemy. The Nawab's troops finally fell back and retreated to Fyzabad, but for some reason, or other-probably from dis- trust of his Pathán contingent-left Makárim Khan on the banks of the Ganges to watch the troops of the Bangash. Makarim Khan seeing that he was likely to come to no good between these two parties fled to Rohil- khand, and his jágír was confiscated. A few village were afterwards restored to him through the intervention of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, the Ru- hela Chief, who at that time lived on terms of great amity with Shujá-ud- daula. Amongst them was Bakhtiarpagar, which he received in jágír for the pay of his regiment of Pathán horse, that he was sent to com- mand at Gorakhpur. This he holds free to the present day. It was at about this time also that the family granted a bit of land of the Qasba called Kenwal-hár to Faqir Muhammad Khan, an Afridi Pathan, father of the future Taluqdars, Ahmad Khan and Nasim Khan. Iradat Ali Khan and Ibráhim Ali Kban, grandsons of Abdul Makarim Khan, did good service in the mutiny, and were rewarded by a grant of the village of Kursat in Hardoi, but they have since sold it. Besides Bakhtiárnagar they now only possess three other villages-Basrela, Jamlápur, and Bhatau. The Garhi Sanjar branch hold that village on muáfi (rent-free) tenure, and some five others. The next Patháns that came were the Bazad Khails of Bari-Garhi, who hold eight villages close to Malihabad on the west. They also came from Hasanpur-Bari, some seven generations ago, led by their ancestors, Shekh Ibrahim, who is said to have been a Mansabdar in the Dehli emperor's service. The first settled in the Ahma village of Habibpur Nasiamau, and are said to have bought their remaining villages from their Shekh proprietorg of Kasmandi-kalán and Sahlamau. The settlement of the family of Qandhári Pathans in the pargana isrecent. Yusaf Khan, the father of Abd-ur-Rahman Khan, came in the province as an adventurer in the time of the Nawab Shuja-ud-daula (1753 A.D.), and settled in Khairabad. Subsequently his son performed good service in a contingent supplied by the Nawab for the use of the English Govern- ment, and was granted twelve villages in jágír, the chief of which was Khálispur. This and twenty-five other villages had belonged to the Pírzáda Shab Madan Pír, and had been granted to him in muáfi tenure by the