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66. Baja Dugur Sail Doy, 1607 A. D. 
67. Baja Haribal Dev, 1643 A. D. “defeated by the Subadar.” 
68. Baja Himmat Bahadur Dev, 1646 A. D. 
69. Baja Achal Sinh Dev, 1687 A. D. “ defeated in 1727 by 
Saadat Khan. Utter destruction of all the family property.” 
70. Baja Sadan Sinh Dev 1729 A. D. 
71. Baja Aman Sinh, 1755 A. D. 
72. Baja Ganpat Sinh, 1817 A. D. 
73. Baja Lai Shio Bam Sinh, born 1837 A. D. 
74. Kunvar Batn Sinh. 
On the Geography of India in the lieign of Aid)ar. Part II .—By John 
Beames, B. C. S. 
(With a Map.) 
No. II. Subah Bihar. 
In reconstructing the details of this large and important province 
very great difficulties have to be encountered. It is not so much that 
changes have taken place, for that has happened everywhere ; but that 
for a long time past no record has been kept of such changes, rather 
there has been at one time an effort to obliterate all traces of them, and 
at another a policy of deliberately refraining from enquiring into them. 
The intentional falsification of the fiscal records by the later Muham¬ 
madan Subahdars, and the Permanent Settlement of Lord Cornwallis 
have each in its own way done much to efface the former political geo¬ 
graphy. That so many of the old parganahs are still traceable is due 
more to the conservative instincts of the people, than to any care that 
has been bestowed upon the matter by those in authority. 
Even in Todar Mai’s time parts of Bihar seem to have been some¬ 
what imperfectly known. In the whole of the large Sarkar of Mungir 
(now generally written Monghyr) the areas of the malials are wanting, 
and in some of the other Sarkars also we find areas omitted here and 
there. The information regarding the contingents of horse and foot 
soldiery to be furnished is not given in detail for each mahal, but in most 
cases only in the lump for each Sarkar, and the castes or tribes of the 
proprietary families are only mentioned in a few instances. Moreover 
there are large areas on the map which are not covered by any of the 
malials named in the lists, and which we must therefore assume to have 
been unassessed, and probably uninhabited, in those days. 
