— BAH The
Risalddr took
Sah establiskes himself at Ikau"*• Bariar
It
was about
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up his position at Ikauna, then called Kh^npur MahSda ^^^ became the founder of that great family -which has provided in the course of seventeen generations lords for so many estates in this and the neighbouring districts of Gonda.
forty years aftej: the Janwar settlement was effected, viz.. ^-bout 1414 A. D., during the anarchy that prevailed
The Raikwars mi-
throughout Hindustan on the decline of the house of Tughlaq, that two brotbers, Partab Sdh and Dtinde Sah, Surajbans Rajputs, migrated from Raika in Kashmir and finally took up their abode at Ramnagar in the Bara Banki district. grate from
and
settle in
Partdb
Kashmir E&una-
Sdh
and his two sons Saldeo and Baldeo made away with their uncle and sought service with the Bhar raja of ^"'°2^* Ramnagar. The Raja of Bamhnauti on the Bahraich to^Bamhnauti side of the river, by name Dipchand, also a Bhar chief during a visit to his relative of Ramnagar was struck with Saldeo's capacity for business, and on his return home brought him back with him to Bamhnauti. The Raikwdr (the emigrant from Kashmir had taken a tribal name from their native village) served his master so well and increased the revenues of the estate so satisfactorily that the raja in his pride took Saldeo took advantage of the opportunity, to resisting the authorities. slew his master, and possessed himself of the estate. This was probably died,
about 1450 A. D.
From
this, the Raikwars have been masters of the western portion of the district. The three great estates of The Raikwara estab- Baundi, Rahwa and Ohahlari, besides the 52 villages Ush^themselves in the ^^0^^ ^^ tj^e Kaikwari Muhals which are now included in the northern portion of the Hisampur pargana, were all held by descendants of the enterprising Saldeo.
that day to
Section VIIT.
—The
The district at the end of the fifteenth century.
district at the
end of the fifteenth century.
At the end of the fifteenth century then the district occupied much as follows
we
find
The Ansaris and the Sayyads in the south (Hisampur), the Janwdrs in the east (Ikauna), and the Raikwars in the west (Fakhrpur) held the southern portion of the district, while the northern parganas were in all probability quite independent under the sway of hill chieftains. Bahlol Lodi had re-established the Muhammadan empire and extended its territory once more to the foot of the Himalayas durBahlol Lodi and his ing his reign of thirty-eight years from 1450 A. D. nephew the Black Mouu- ^.^ ^^33^ ^^^ -^ ^^^ under the government of his ^^^' nephew Muhammad, famous by the name of " Kalapahar" or "Black Mountain," who was appointed by his uncle in 1478 A. D. to the fief of Bahraich, that these northern districts were reminded once more of the days of Nasir-ud-din, but it is unlikely that the operations of his troops in this part were anything more than mere raids or that any permanent hold was obtained over the country.
