Tamkuhi

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Tamkuhi

Estate situated in the Basti and Gorakhpur Districts of the United Provinces, and in the Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Saran, and Gaya Districts of Bengal, comprising 253 villages. The income is about 2.8 lakhs, and the land revenue and cesses payable to Govern- ment 1.4 lakhs. The owners are Bhuinhars, claiming descent from a Rajput who married a Bhuinharin. The founder of the family was Fateh Sahi, Raja of Hathwa in Saran District, who resisted the British after the battle of Buxar in 1764, and was forced to take refuge in the jungles on the bank of the Great Gandak in Gorakhpur, where he had another estate, then included in the dominions of the Nawab of Oudh. He acquired a large property, which was mostly dissipated by his sons. About 1830-40 a grandson recovered part of the ancestral estate, and settled at Salemgarh in Gorakhpur District, founding a separate family. Another grandson retained Tamkuhi and greatly increased his estates. He obtained the title of Raja, which is hereditary. The present Raja, Indrajit Pratap Bahadur Sahi, was born in 1893, and the estate is now under the management of the Court of Wards.