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consumption are

There are the ruins of an old

sold.

28° 9'; longitude, 80° 40'.

AxfpuE

41

mud

fort.

Latitude

Population 1,133.

Pargana Daundia Khera

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Tahsil Puewa District Unao. of the tahsil station, and twenty-six east of flows three miles to the south of it.

Lies twenty-one miles south

Unao.

The

river

Ganges

It was founded by a Sayyad Musalman, whose name was Ali Akbar, some eight hundred years ago. The soil is principally loam with some clay. The site lies rather low, but the situation is pleasing. Climate and water

good. Groves in abundance. Two markets weekly for corn. Goldsmiths, carpenters, and potters work here. There are mostly mud built houses.

Population

is

as follows



Hindus

,..

Muhammadaus

The Hindu population

is

,

...

...

,..

1,406

...

...

22

Total

...

divided as follows



Btahmans Kayaths

330 311 12

Baniitas Pasis Other castes

18 27 70S

Chhattris

AMANIGANJ

1,428

Pargana Mahona

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Tahsil Malihabad District Lucka market founded by Asif-ud-daula, on his way to Rehar to fight the Rohillas; he founded one Amaniganj in Malihabad, and on his return he founded Amaniganj in this pargana, on the lands of village Banoga. Banoga was a village belonging to the Th^napati Panwars, whose ancestor. Ram Singh, occupied it after slaying the Pasi proprietors, and because of the immense woods round he called it Banoga.

now.

—This was

It was in the Nawabi, the highway of the traffic from Lucknow to Biswan, and so on to Khairabad, and again from Bisw^n to Fyzabad. The amount of business done was very considerable. The annual bazar sales are now about Rs. 27,700, chiefly of agricultui-al produce. Manufactured country cotton stuffs take a small place.

One

of the

Government vernacular

schools

is

placed here.

The population, including that of Banoga, is 1,600. There are no masonry houses. of one regular street.

AMETHI Pargana Lucknow.

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Mohanlalganj

—Tahsil

The bazar

Mohanlalganj

consists

—District

Amethi Dingur on the Lucknow and Sultanpur road

at

the seventeenth milestone from Lucknow, was the old head-quarters of the pargana which was known as the Pargana Amethi, till R^ja Himmat Gir Goshd.in transferred it to Goshainganj, which he built and called after himself, in the reign of Shuja-ud-daula, in 1754. With a change in the towns came also a change in the name of the pargana, which was thenceforth known as tke Goshainganj pargana.