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was granted by the Emperor Akbar, and is still maintained by the British Government. Besides these two, there is the shrine of Shah Yusuf Qalandari Faqir and numerous mosques. The Hindu religion has been suppressed, as no Hindu has dared to build a temple. A resident of Amethi and a member of the family of Shekh Bandagi Mian's was Maulvi Amir Ali Faqir, who in the last days of Wajid All's reign led a crusade for the destruction of the Hindu temples of the Hanoman Garhi at Fyzabad. An injunction was issued against his doing so by the King's Government. He did not obey and was killed in a fight that took place at Shujdganj, near Bhilsar, in the Bara Banki district, between himself and the King's troops, headed by Captain Boileau, that had been sent to stop him. The town now has a somewhat deserted-looking condition, due to the effect of old, unrepaired houses.

The annual sales at the bazars amount to Ks. 3,600, and the weaving trade flourishes. There are no less than ninety-five families of the weaving (Juldha) caste in the town, and the butchers drive a thriving trade in the sale of skins and horns and suet of cattle slain for the consumption of the Musalman population. No less than Rs. 1,200 worth of skins form the annual sale of skins at the rate of one a piece. The Government vernacular school is attended by some 110 pupils, and a small girls' school is attached. The number

of houses

is

AMETHI Fargana— Tahsil

1,494.

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Raipue District Sultanpue.* This large bounded on the south by the district and pargana of Partabgarh on the north by the parganas of Isauli and Sultanpur on the east by Tappa Asl on the west by Pokha Jiis. and important pargana

is







It is of a quadrangular shape, covering an area of 299 square miles, of which 131 are cultivated 59 are barren, and the rest is arable. The population is 160,752, being at the rate of 638 to the square mile of these only 5,491, or about 3 per cent, are Musalmans, 27,767 are Brahmans, nearly 17 per cent. This is a very high average for Oudh. 14,605 are Chhattris, and 14,724 are Chamars, 23,372 are Ahirs.



It is an out-of-the way pargana, in which a colony of Chhattris has exercised undisturbed rule for many generations.

Of the 365 villages all but one are owned by the Chhattri clan, the Bandhalgoti, and out of them Raja Madho Singh of Amethi has 318 villages, covering an area of 265 square miles, and paying a revenue of Rs. 1,96,417. His fort was taken after the mutinies in 1858 he was the last chief of any consequence whose submission was folBond's History of lowed by pardon and restoration he had saved several the Mutinies, Vol. II, 533. Europeans at the commencement of the outbreak, and was therefore treated with leniency. There are eighteen temples of Mahadeo, two of Debi there are also six mosques, several of them costly erections, built by retired dancing girls.







By

A. F. Millctt, Esq., Assistant Commissioner.