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390 SIT Sayyad.-Mir Muhammad Husen, taluqdar of Káli, pargana Misrikh and Rájápára. This gentleman is a native of Budaun, where he has some small landed property. He entered the service of the Oudh Government and was chakladar for some time, and afterwards rose to be a collector, During his tenure of office he became possessed of his present estate by mortgage. The precise history of this family is not known. One brother was killed during the rebellion, and another, Fida Husen, commonly known as "Captain," is now a taluqdar in the Kheri district, The non-taluqdari families. The following gentlemen bave large pro- perty and influence, although they are not taluqdars:-- Janwar Chhattris.—Thakur Mádho Singh, &c., of Jargawen in pargana Kurauna, tahsil Misrikh. The history of this gentleman's family has been lost, and beyond the fact that their ancestor came to Oudh from Janakpur about 400 years ago even tradition is silent. The names of the heads of the family cannot be traced back beyond four generations; but of these four it may be recorded that one was in possession of the estate for 75 and another for 72 years, instances of longevity which cau hardly be equalled in any family in the district. Janwar Chhattris. --Thákur Débi Singh, of Banikomau, in pargana Machhrehta, tahsil Misrikh. Tradition assigns a very ancient date to the first acquisition of the estate by the head of this family. The genealogical tree extends back over 33 generations and 1,149 years. Beyond the names and dates, however, little or nothing is known, except that the family came originally from Gujarat. Beni Singh, taluqdar of Ulra, in pargana Biswán, tahsil Biswán. This gentleman's family have lived in Sitapur for fourteen generations. Their ancestor was Dewa Rám, who came from Jaipur and settled in Oudh about A.D. 1510. Beyond the genealogical tree little or nothing is known. Thákur Balbhaddar Singh, of Bojhera, in pargana Sadrpur, tahsil Bári, is descended from Hastráj, a native of Gwalior, and a risáldár in the Oudh service. The estate belonged to the Bhars, a race at that time in process of extermination, and now extinct. It is supposed that the estate was conferred on Hastráj for good service, and that he drove out the Bhar and took possession. Raghubansi Ohhattris.--Gopál Singh, taluqdar of Bamhnawán, in pargana Kundri, tahsil Biswán. The family of this gentleman is descended from Sáthan Rae, a resident of Ajodhya, who about A.D. 1072 settled in the Mallápur duab driving out the aborigines from Garh Qila, The history of the family is obscure, but it is certain that the estate has suffered much in recent times, and that the family of Raghubansis, formerly a large and powerful clan, is gradually dying out. In that portion of the duáb still known as Garh, and which comprises nearly the whole of pargana Kundri, a tradition exists that the cultiva- tion of sugar is fatal to the cultivator, and that the tiling of a house brings