508 MOH mild rebuke, and the descendants of the forward musician still beat the drum for the rájas of Tiloi. It is possible that the possession of Mohan Singh's fourteen parganas was confirmed at Dehli, but the grant if made was not long recognized at Lucknow. * The remainder of his life was spent in an unavailing struggle with the wazír, whose absence in Bengal enabled him to drive out the officials who bad been left in charge of Jagdispur and Parshádepur, and temporarily to attain something like the power of his predecessors. On the return of the Nawab he was hunted from place to place, and he was finally surprised at his devotions and cut down before an image of Mahảdeo in the Kándu-ka-nála in Jagdíspur. The Muhammadan trooper who brought his head to the king was rewarded for his valuable tribute by the grant of two villages free of revenue in Gonda. It was at this time that the Chob or Chuab Nadi was finally recognized as the boundary of Baiswara and Kanbpuria land. Balbhaddar was childless, and his death, which took place in the summer of 1784 A. D., was followed by a long interregaum. Of his two widowed ránis one was immolated, and from the pyre formally invested Chhatardhári Singh of Shahmau with the rája's cap. The adoption was not recognized by the whole tribe, and the living ráni adopted Shankar Singh, the ancestor of the present rája. For fifteen years a war of succes. sion was waged without any decisive result, and a compromise was even- tually effected, by which both competitors received the style of rája, and neither the throne of Tiloi. Shankar Singh took his title from Asni and Chhatardhári from Shahmau; and it was not till sometime afterwards that the former, a prudent and peaceful prince, recovered the centre of the traditions of his tribe. Tiloi has since descended quietly to the present owner, Rája Jagpál Singh, Chhatardhári's grandson. Dirgej Singh died without offspring, and was succeeded at Shahmau by his adopted son Rája Sukhmangal Singh. At the time of Saádat Khan's invasion Simrauta was held by Mándháta Singh. He was left in possession of his ancestral pargana and conciliat- ed by the honorary distinction of a drum and the titular mansab of seven thousand men. His great grandson was without children, and adopted his first cousin Raghu Náth Singh, the Bábu of Chandápur, who was suc- ceeded by his son Shiudarshan Singh, a fine specimen of the Rajput, celé-
- The only documentary evidence wbich the preseat rája could produce on the subject
in a Wájib-ui-arz of several heada addressed by Balbbaddar Singh to Abul Madsúr Eban. One bead is as follows:- I am the old zamindar of fourteen parganas inherited from Mohan Singh (namely Jáis, Nasirabad, Salon, Rae Bareli, Minikpur, Hardoi, Inbauda, Subeba, Takia, Banorbi, Rudauli Şaidazpur, Biawan); this zamindari has been reduced ; let me again hold it on the payment of 22 lakhs revenue. This ia crosaed with the aniblguoue order " Badkatúr--qadim." Another curious bead is "Let me deduct the expenses of my army trom my revenue, or have them paid in full by Government." The order on this is" deduct from revenue." It is obvious that this proces very little but consciousness of power in the petitioner.
