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MAL 435 amusing story is told of the exaltation of the latter to the dignity of rája. His father was on a certain occasion attending the Court of the Chakladar, Rája Mibinlál at Sandílk, and the latter addressing him pleasantly with the words come up Rája Sáhib. From that day he has borne the title thus conferred on him, which is otherwise so venerated by the Hindus that the sanction of some religious ceremony is required to render it valid. The tappa Kathauli Ráo was colonized by Janwárs (Bach Gotr) under Ráa Sukh. But their villages have, most of them, fallen a prey to the Pathfin families of Malihabad. Alamgir, the emperor, gave to one of them, Aláwal Khan, a Bazad KhailPathan, eighty bíghas muáfi in Badaura, one of the Kathauli Ráo villages, and he built a fort here. Sub- sequently this Pathán family had a great fight with Abd-un-Nabi Khán, the Amnázai Pathin, and the latter beat them with the aid of the old Janwar proprietors of the tappa. Ever since then the Janwars and Amnázai Patháns have been great friends, but this did not prevent the latter from taking most of the Janwárs' villages, and they hold now only the small village of Shabzádpur, On the south of the pargana, on the right bank of the Baita close to Malibabad, a tribe of Gautams (Gautam Gotr) from Argal held twelve villages, the parent village of which was Datli.' They are reputed to have come some four hundred years ago under Deo Ráe and Naya Rána from Argal and dispossessed a tribe of Arakhs. They have suffered depredations from the Patháns of Malihabad, and now only hold five muháls. They are Datli, Pabárpur, Dhendemau-Rámpur, Basti, and Kheota. The Lobnjár Janwárs of Khárawán (Sándal Gotr) hold twelve villages, situated to the south-west of the pargana, a short distance from Malihabad. This part of the country was then held by a tribe of Arakhs, probably akin to the Pásis, who ruled from Malihabad. After Sayyad Sálár's inva- sion, they are said to bave embraced the Muhammadan faith, and to have kept undisturbed possession of their villages. But in the village of Kharáwán there lived a Brahman family, amongst whom was a daughter famed for her beauty, and she was sought in marriage by one of the song of the pervert Musalmans. The Brahmans in their extremity sought the aid of some Janwars, who were passing the country on a pilgrimage to Gya. The Janwárs told them to hold out till they, the Janwárs, could give them some help, and continued their journey, and on their retum they attacked the Musalmans, and drove them out of their villages. This is said to have given them their title of Lohnjárs, or the men of iron. But the tappa is now broken up, and a greater part of it is held by the two Pathán Taluqdars, Nasím Khan and Ahmad Khan, and other Shekha and Patháns of Malibabad. The old tappa of Jindaur consisted of twelve villages, six of which were beld by Shekhs and six by Salanki Rajputs. The estate is said to have been conferred on them by the Panwár Rája Deo Ridh Ráe, who seems to have occupied it before his final settlement in Itaunja. There are in the village the remains of a fort still to be seen which is attributed to the Panwars. The Panwars came from Dháránagar in Málwa, and the