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offended. One day that very man, passing through Lachhmanpur Misran, 
got up a quarrel with the inhabitants, and began to oppress them greatly. 
The Brahmans complained to the Baja, and set forth all the oppression 
they had undergone. The Baja becoming very angry wrote to him, order¬ 
ing him to leave his home and seek another country, and warned him that 
to eat and drink in this country was forbidden him: it were better he went 
elsewhere. He then, with all his belongings, went and settled in Tappa 
Sapahi (v. s.), and became the servant of the Bao of Sapahi. At that 
time fortune so favoured Hindu Singh that he rose to great power, and 
built forts in Behnor aud Sachendi, and established his rule over a large 
tract of country, and engaged thousands of soldiers, horse and foot, and 
obtained victories in many battles waged against him. His fame was 
noised abroad, and he assumed the title of Baja of Sachendi.” From the 
Hindi manuscript, however, of the family history of the Sachendi line, we 
obtain the following account of the rise of that family, which overran the 
whole of south Jajmau, and eventually got the territory under the old 
family temporarily in its grasp:—“ The 35th was Gargaj Deo, who had 
two sons, Ivarchan Deo, hy a concubine, and Har Singh Deo, the sister’s 
son of the Tilok Chand Bais. When Gargaj Deo died, Karelian Deo and 
Har Singh Deo disputed about the succession, hearing which Tilok Chand 
came to the Bani and desired she would give the raj to Har Singh Deo. 
She refused and set Karchan Deo upon the gaddi. Har Singh Deo left 
Shiurajpur, came to Behnor and founded Harsinghpur and a second gaddi.” 
The truth appears to be more with the latter account, Hindu Singh being 
a descendant, some generations distant of Har Singh Deo, and living in the 
reigns of Indarjit and Hindupat (cotemporary of Firoz Shah), to which 
Bajas, says the manuscript, “Hindu Singh, in spite of his power, never 
failed in respect, nor committed so grave an offence as that of his son 
Sambhar Singh.” Hindu Singh’s power indeed became so great, and his 
contumacy so determined, that the reigning emperor got the Bhadauria 
Baja to attack him and expel him the country; the great forts of Dinaur, 
Sachendi, &c. being given over to the Bhadaurias. Sambhar Singh, how¬ 
ever, returned eighteen years after and recovered the whole of the lost 
territory. This same Sambhar Singh rose to such power that he ousted 
the young Bisal Singh (who had to fly the country), and obtained title- 
deeds to the greater part of the country, and established a “ thana in 
Shiurajpur.” With the aid, however, of Nawab Najaf Khan, Nazim of 
Nawab Wazir-ul-Mamalik Asf-ud-Daulah, he (Bisal Singh) re-established 
his authority over the whole pargana of Shiurajpur. 
9. Sanad of Jalal-ud-din Akbar to Baja Bamchand. “ Since it has 
been brought to our notice that from time of old, according to immemorial 
custom, Bs. 15,000 for support, and one ‘ tinka’ per cultivated bigha by 
