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1874.] J. Wise —On the JBarah JBhuyas of Eastern Bengal. 
His eldest son was Munawwar Khan, zamindar, as he is called in the 
’Alamgirnamah. He accompanied the army which captured Chittagong in 
December, 1665. For his bravery on this occasion, he was made a com¬ 
mander of 1,000 with 500 horse. 
Like his great grandfather, he appears to have been an unruly and tur¬ 
bulent officer, and local tradition asserts that he was often at open war with 
the Nawabs who ruled at Dhaka. 
After the settlement of Bengal in Akhar’s reign, this family is said to 
have possessed 22 parganahs in Eastern Bengal ; hut it is currently be¬ 
lieved that during the lifetime of Munawwar Khan, these parganahs were 
apportioned among four brothers. Munawwar Klian got the property in 
Maimansingh, .which is included in the modern Tappa Hazradih, where the 
family residence has been ever since. 
As late as the 44th julus of Aurangzib, A. D. 1700, and during the 
Nawabship of ’Azim-ushshan, the large parganah of Buldak’hal in Tiparah 
belonged to them, the representative of one branch of the family, if not its 
head, being Haibat Khan, the founder of the town of Haibatnagar. The 
peshkash, or quit-rent, of that property for the year 1700, was fixed at 
rupees 1,261, annas 7, and the zamindar had to furnish 37 war-boats, each 
manned by 32 sailors, and a few kosah boats. 
In 1761, during the Nawabship of Jasarat Khan, the family still pos¬ 
sessed parganah Nuqrat Shahi, and many of the Nawara Mahalls in Dhaka 
and the adjoining districts. 
Large portions of their extensive properties were given away rent-free 
to Brahmans, or subdivided into small holdings. At the decennial settle¬ 
ment, the under-tenures were so numerous and scattered, that the zamindar 
found it impossible to collect the revenue. He petitioned the authorities 
to make a settlement with his tenants and allow him instead an annual 
pension. This was agreed to, and the Masnad i ’A'li of the present day 
receives a yearly grant of money. All the lakharaj lands given away by 
former zamindars have been recognized as such by the British Government. 
Of the descendants of Munawwar Khan little is known. Subhan Dad 
Khan of Jangalbari in Maimansingh is the head of the family at the present 
day, while Tlah Nawaz Khan of Haibatnagar, who died in Calcutta in Octo¬ 
ber 1872, was the last male descendant of Muhammad Khan, the younger 
brother of Tsa Khan. 
Other branches of the family are settled at Ja’farabad and Baghalpur 
in Maimansingh ; at Harishpur* in Tiparah ; and at Katrabo in Dhaka. 
Kliizrpur is generally associated with ’Isa Khan’s name. It is situat¬ 
ed about a mile north of the modern Narayanganj, and close to it is one of 
the forts built by Mir Jumlali in the seventeenth century, which is called 
the Hajiganj, or Khizrpur, Kil’ah. At this point, the Ganges, Lak’hiya, and 
* The eldest son of the zamindar is always styled Thakur. 
