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at Mau there is a Muhalla called after him “ Kot Mirza Khani.” Nawab 
Hadi Dad Khan’s tomb is at Nander on the Godaveri where he died, but 
there is a village in pargana Shamshabad called after him Hadidadpur. Bibi 
Raba’h, wife of Ilhamullah Khan, son of Bashid Khan, built a sarae and well 
with stairs in Mauza Kuberpur, south of Mau and east of Kaimganj ; the 
Afridis knocked the sarae down and used the bricks, the Baoli is still there 
half in ruins. The place near it is called “ Sarae Bibi Baba’ll” to this day. 
A separate village, formerly called Sayyad Firuzpur, lying between Mau 
and Cliak Mau-Bashidabad, is known as “ Katra Bahmat Khan” (market¬ 
place of B. K.) after a great-grandson of Mirza Khan. His tomb is in 
Mauza ’Ataipur, east of Mau, a village formerly called Baripur but now named 
after a Nawab ’Atai Khan. Subhan Khan, another chief, resettled Mauza 
Bhartpur just south of Kaimganj, and called it after himself Suhbanpur. 
In the lands of Hamirpur, the next village west of Mau, is a shrine dedica¬ 
ted to Pir Boshan, the ancestor of the Khanzadahs. The Putwari who 
pointed it out to me gave the correct pronunciation, with the long a in the 
name “ Boshan.” 
Mau Bashidabad remained a jagir of the descendants of Bashid 
Khan till it was resumed by Nawab Muzaffar Jang (1771—1796). All 
they now have is a few revenue-free plots, and one of them is glad to be a 
Head Constable on Bs. 10 a month. 
Note B. 
THE BAMTELAS. 
There are two origins assigned for the name Bamtela. The first is, 
that a Thakur chief when bathing in the Ganges made as was usual a gift 
of his wife to the officiating Brahmans, and then purchased her back by a 
large gift of money. One of the conditions imposed by the Brahmans was, 
that her issue should be called Bamtela. The other story is, that this Bajah 
having seized a Brahman woman and made her his concubine, her children 
by him were called Bamtelas. 
She had three sons (1) Hathi Bae, whose descendants lived in Bhao- 
pur, Jasmai, Nurpur, Dharanagar, Sathanpur; (2) Nibal Deo, whose de¬ 
scendants held Dhalawal, Gharampur, Garhya ; (3) Sab Sukh. This Sab 
Sukh had three sons a) Bhart S6h, whose descendants lived in Hathipur, 
Awajpur, Na’matpurand Baraun(8 Biswahs); (2) Nandan Sah, whose fami¬ 
ly held' Aduli and Bashidpur ; (3) Chattar Singh, whose family held Baraun 
(12 Biswahs) and Babarpur. The founders of these families are said to 
have lived fourteen or fifteen generations ago, but the Awajpur zamindars, 
when enquiry was made by the Settlement Officer, could not carry back their 
genealogy more than six generations. 
