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Santan conferred on them the title of Nikumbh (Nekkdm), and added the more substantial benefit of 52 villages for Jhagrti S^h in the neighbourhood of Barwar and Lonara in the Sandila country, and of 52 more for Gajpat Singh in what is now pargana Sandi. Of these, the chief were Palia and Malhautu. The third son, Narpat Singh, remained with his father on the Farukhabad side of the Ganges. The fourth, Magrti Sah, was rewarded for good service, with leave to settle in that portion of what is now the Alamnagar pargana, which had not been already appropriated by the Gaurs, and in and near Fatehpur Gaind in what is now pargana Shahabad. Side by
side, doubtless not without constant feuds, the Gaurs and occupied this tract, until, in the reign of Akbar, the Gaurs, then headed by Raja Lakhmi Sen, waxed rebellious and were dislodged by Nawab Sadr Jah^n, the illustrious founder of the line of Pihani Sayyads. The fortunes of the Nikumbhs fell as the star of the Sayyads rose. Village after village fell into the grasp of the Muhammadans, until at last all that was left to the Nikumbhs was Bahlolpur, their earliest settlement in these parts. So they called it Raho (the last left), and by this name But the troubles of the is the ruined site of Bahlolpur still called. deeper deep was in store for them. In Nikumbhs were not at an end. the following reign, at a wrestling-bout between Gopdl Sah, Nikumbh, and Taj Khan, a Pathan in the service of Sadr Jahan, the Nikumbhs and Bahlolpur, too, Sayyads fell out. The Nikumbhs got the worst of it passed away from them, and the Sayyads named it Alamnagar, in honor of the reigning Emperor Alamgir the first (Aurangzeb). The Nikumbhs did not recover their position until about ninety years ago, when Asif-uddaula resumed the revenue-free domain of the Pihani and Muhamdi Sayyads (then represented by the Sombansi pervert. Raja Ibadulla Khan), and gave to the depressed Nikumbhs and Gaurs an opportunity of again
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engaging for their
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ALDEMAU Pargana— Tahsil Kadipue— DisiHci StjltAnpue. PAET Historical. — * The pargana
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is in shape an irregular square, most productive, of the as it was undoubtedly one to be considered was and the largest, in the Fyzabad district, in the extreme south-eastern corner of which it was situated it is now in the extreme north-east of Sultan-
of
pur. It is It contains 562 villages and 223,S73 acres, or 349 square miles. traditionally asserted that there were two brothers, who were prominent leaders amongst the Bhars, named Aide and Malde, the former of whom built a fort and city on the high left bank of the river Gumti, calling the The latter by his own name, and adding to it the common affix of Man. pargana takes its name from this city, which is now in ruins. But little
known here of the people of whom these brothers were the chiefs, further than that traces of them are still seen, such as old forts and ruined town^ ships, in no less than forty-nine places in this pargana. is
By
P. Carnegy, Esq., Commissioner,
