erred to powerful tallookdars, and absorbed by them in their
estates, by the usual process. It is said, and I believe truly, that
Hadee Allee Khan tried to induce the head of the Syud family to take
his daughter in marriage for his eldest son, as he was also a Syud,
(lineal descendant of the prophet.) The old Syud was too proud to
consent to this; and he and all his relations and connection were
ruined in consequence. The son, to whom Hadee Allee wished to unite
his daughter, still lives on his lands, but in poverty and fear. The
people say that family pride is more inveterate among the aristocracy
of the country than that of the city; and had the old man lived at
Lucknow, he would probably have given his son, and saved his family
and estate.
Captain Hardwick, while out shooting on the 10th, saw a dead man
hanging by the heels in a mango-tree, close to the road. He was one
of a gang of notorious robbers who had attacked a neighbouring
village belonging to some Brahmins. They killed two, and caught a
third member of the gang, and hung him up by the heels to die. He was
the brother-in-law of the leader of the gang, Nunda Pandee. There he
still hangs, and the greater part of my camp took a look at him in
passing.
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Tallookdars of Bahraetch-Government Land Revenue according
to the Estimate of this Year.
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Names of Villages Government Present Condition
Demand
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Bandee . . . . . 65,000 Almost waste
Ruhooa . . . . . 20,000 Ditto
Nanpara . . . . . 1,50,000 Falling off
Gungwal . . . . . 26,000 Much out of tillage
Pyagpoor . . . . . 59,000 Ditto
Ekona . . . . . . 1,80,000 Ditto
Bulrampoor . . . . 1,50,000 Well tilled
Toolseepoor . . . . 1,05,000 Ditto
Atrola . . . . . 80,000 Much out of tillage
Munkapoor . . . . 35,000 Ditto
Bahmanee Paer . . . 12,000 Ditto
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Gowras alias Chehdwara
Paruspoor. . . . . 14,000 Well tilled
Aruta . . . . . . 18,000 Ditto
Shahpoor . . . . . 30,000 Ditto
Dhunawa
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