Ramesam, J.

1. This is a suit by the plaintiff to eject defendants from the suit lands which are situate in Puliyampatti village, Chingleput District and for mesne profits. The District Judge decreed the suit in respect of items 2 and 3, and as to item 1 he found that the suit is "premature. The defendants appeal in respect of items 2 and 3 and there Is a memorandum of objections by the plaintiff in respect of item 1. We have first to consider the case as regards items 2 and 3. These are Survey Nos. 986 and 985.

2. Puliyampatti village in which the suit lands are situate and Nombal village together constituted what the plaintiff describes as a sarva inam jagir, and it will be convenient now to refer to the history of this sarva inam jagir.

3. The District of Chingleput was under the sovereignty of the Nawab of Carnatic up to the year 1763. In that year the Nawab made a grant of these two villages to a lady of the family Khairun-Nissa Begum. Subsequently in the same year 16th October 1763, the Nawab gave a lease of the greater portion of the Chingleput District to the East India Company generally referred to as "the jagir". This grant of the Nawab in 1763 was afterwards confirm