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Daundia Khera, and this renders it impossible to suppose that the 
former and Unchganw could have been united to form the Daundia 
Khera pargana. It was a small mahal, with 16,794 bighas of cultiva¬ 
tion ; it was held, of course, by Bais, who contributed no less than 2,000 
infantry. 
Another untraced mahal is Deorakh. This was obviously in Bais- 
wara, from the fact that it was in the possession of Bais. The military 
contingent was 100 horse and 1,500 foot, and the area 13,340 bighas of 
cultivation. Now, Mr. Millett says Deorakh was in Lucknow : where¬ 
fore, I know not. In the Rai Bareli Report I find “Sareni...was formed 
by the amalgamation...of Daoruk and Khanjur,...the former was the 
name of a hamlet now called Daorahhar.” This ought to be good 
enough. 1 We may safely take it as the central portion of the pargana, 
south of Kahanjara, north-east of Nisgarh and north-west of Tara Sin- 
ghaur. These four mahals had a total cultivated area in Akbar’s day 
of 61,791 bighas , or roughly 38,600 acres, which is none too much, as in 
1,902 there were nearly 42,000 acres under the plough in the whole of 
Sareni. Moreover, it is probable that Tara Singhaur, which is in the 
extreme south-east of Sareni, probably extended into the adjoining 
present pargana of Dalmau. 
Another untraced Bais mahal of Mr. Beam.es’ list is Haihar, with 
its 13,109 of bighas cultivation. He writes merely “not traceable.” 
Now Mr. Millett says clearly that it is in Rai Bareli and that Haihar, or 
Aihar, still gives its name to a small estate. He might have gone even 
further and referred to the Rai Bareli Report, in which there is the 
detailed jamabandi of this identical village given as a specimen. It was 
still held by Bais pattidars. The village is a very large one : it lies in 
the north-west of pargana Dalmau, four miles east of Lalganj on the 
road to Rai Bareli. 
Kumbhi was a mahal of sarkar Lakhnau. Sir Charles Elliott in 
his “ Chronicles of Oonao, ” p. 67, gives it as one of the 22 Bais par- 
ganas, and yet Mr. Millett places it in Bara Banki. For what reason, 
I cannot imagine. There is a village of this name in pargana Kumhra- 
wan of Rai Bareli, but this must be discarded, as that part of the dis¬ 
trict was in the sarkar of Manikpur. I cannot find any village of 
Kumbhi in Unao, but I feel sure that this small mahal with its 5,940 
bighas of cultivation may easily be fitted into the Purwa tahsil of that 
district; and there is room for it in pargana Mauranwan. 
There is only one other ‘ untraceable ’ mahal of the Sarkar in Mr. 
Beames’ list, and this is Pingwan. He writes : “ Pingwan or BangivGn 
1 Deorahar is a hamlet of Raipur, a village two miles south of Sareni. 
