involved in debt to the State and to individuals, and had no hope of release from prison by any other means, they consented to sign the bynamahs, or sale deeds for lands, which their families had possessed for centuries.  Those of the capitalists who had no friends at Court were made to pay the money, for which they had been forced to pledge themselves; and those who had such friends, got the sums which they had engaged to pay, represented as irrecoverable balances due by proprietors, and struck off.  The proprietors themselves, plundered of all they had in the world, and without any hope of redress, left the country, or took service under our Government, or that of Oude, or descended to the rank of day-labourers or cultivators in other estates.*

[* Estates held by the family under bynamahs or sale deeds: 

1.  Puchumrath . . . . . . . . . 1,13,000
2.  Howelee . . . . . . . . . . 45,000
3.  Mogulsee, including Hindoo Sing’s
estate of Shapoor, obtained by
fraud and violence . . . . . . 28,000
4.  Bhurteepoor and Laltapoor . . . . 30,000
5.  Rudowlee . . . . . . . . . 12,000
Turolee in Huldeemow. . . . . . 17,000
6.  Bahraetch in Sagonputtee . . . . 4,000
7.  Gosaengunge . . . . . . . . 3,000
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Total Company’s Rupees .  .  . 2,52,000
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Dursun Sing’s contracts, for the land revenue, of districts, amounted from 1827 to 1830, to 59,00,000 rupees a year.  From 1830 to 1836, to 58,00,000.  In 1836 to 46,100,000.  In 1837 to 47,00,000.  He continued to hold the whole or greater part of these districts up to September 1843.]

There were four brothers, the sons of a Canoongo, of Fyzabad; first, Birj Lal; second, Lala; third, Humeer Sing, a corporal in one of our Regiments of Native Infantry; fourth, Hunooman Persaud; fifth, Gunga Persaud.  The family held-eight villages, in hereditary right, with a rent-roll of 6,000, of which they paid 3,000 to Government, and took 3,000 for themselves.  While Dursun Sing was dying, in 1844, his eldest son, Ramadeen, tried to get possession of this estate.  He seized and confined, in the usual way, Gunga Persaud, the Canoongo, and kept him with harsh treatment, for 1844; and when his brother the corporal complained, in the usual way, through the Resident, Gunga Persaud was released, and he attended the Residents Court, as his brother’s attorney, till 1847, when the family recovered possession of the estate.  But in 1846, when Dursun Sing’s son saw that the case was going against him, he made their local agent, Davey Persaud, plunder all the eight villages of all the stock in cattle, grain, &c., that they contained, and all the people, of whatever property they possessed.