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History. The early history of the Bara Banki district is perhaps more obscure than that of any other in Oudh, partly because less perhaps has been done for its elucidation, partly owing to the change in the ownership of land. About half of the district is now owned by Musalmans ; it is not known when they acquired this predominance.
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Ramnagar aud Muhammadpur)
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disintegration of the^
Hindu
clans in this
district is
sufficiently
apparent from this list the proprietary possession of large, continuous tracts by one single Chhattri caste, which prevails elsewhere in Oudh, does not appear here. The Musalman invaders had made their first permanent settlement in this district at Satrikh, in H. 421, A. D. 1030 from thence they had for years waged a fierce and proselytizing war. In successive battles the Hindu had been defeated their attempts to poison or assassinate Sayyad Salar had failed, but the war of extermination which ensued crushed the remains of Hindu independence and annihilated the faith in Sihd,li, for inlarge districts by the wholesale massacre of its professors. stance, was conquered, ancj its sovereign, a Siharia Chhattri, was killed. Kunttir was captured, and its Bhar queen, Kintama slain. The death of Sayyad Salar, 1032 A. D., was merely a temporary check the Musalman invaders were now animated by a desire to revenge their young martyr, as a well as by the usual motives of plunder, proselytism and conquest second invasion consequently ensued.
In A. D. 1049, 441 H., the Kings of Kanauj and Manikpur were defeated and driven from Oudh by Qutub-ud-dm of Medina. The Musalman invasion was more successful in Bara Banki than elsewhere. In 586 H., 1189 A. D., Sihali was conquered by Shekh Nizam-ud-din of Herat, Ansari. Zaidpur was occupied by themin H. 636, when Sayyad Abdul W^hid twenty-three generations ago turned out the Bhars, altering the name of the town from Suhalpur. The colony of Musalman Bhattis, which now occupies Mawai MahoMra, is reported to have arrived about the same time, although some place it as early as H. 596, 1199 A. D. They came from Bhatnair or Bhattiana, in the Punjab and Rajputana it is possible that, as they allege, they were a colony left by the Ghori king, who five years before had taken Kanauj ; but it is more probable that they were converts and emigrants from the parent city, when Jessulmere was See Tod's Kajasthan, ^^^^^^ ^^^ sacked by AlM-ud-din in 1295 A. D. Bhat;
