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tinder the plough. Chandardip has been inclnded with taluqa, and some two-thirds is under cultivation.

Eustam Sah's

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Co')n'munications. Under the native Government there were two main roads one from Fyzabad to Tanda, along the banks of the Gogra, has an almost unbroken avenue of very fine mango trees, planted, it is said, -by Sitla Bibi of Tanda, in memory of her departed husband, a banker at Benares. The avenue was made to shelter numerous pilgrims passing along the road to Ajodhya, and the planting is said to have been done in 1223 Fasli. The second road was from Akbarpur through Amsin Khas to Fyzabad, and is sparsely planted.

The present roads kept up by Government are all unmetalled. They I.

are

—From Fyzabad

to Mahrajganj, from which place it branches into two, the one on the right leading to Atbarpur and Jaunpur, and that on the left, to Tanda and Azamgarh.

There are seven

ferries

on the Gogra

in the pargana, viz

Sirwa, TJniar, Bara, Begamganj, Dalpatpur, Jarhi,

Nos.

1,

3 and 5 are those at which there

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is

most

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Mama.

traffic.

Towns, bazars. There are no large townSj but there are nine which bazars are held, viz

villages

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1.

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2.

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3.

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in.

Saturday and Wednesday. Friday and Sunday.

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Monday and

Friday.

Saturday and Wednesday.

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Tuesday and Saturday. Saturday and Wednesday.

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Small bazars with no fixed days for open market

Chuno-i used, under the Nawabi rule, to be levied at all these markets, the zamindars taking 4 annas, the qan-flngos 1| anna, and the chakladar lOJ annas in every rupee of chungi received.

Holy held

places

and

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is a mela called " Singi Rikh (Rishi)" and again in Chait-sudi 9th, at mauza the Gogra, and about two kos east of Begamganj alias

shrines.

in " Kartik-sudi-puranmdshi,"

Sirwa on the banks of Dilasiganj.

follows

The

local history of the sacred character of this place is as



In the days of Raja Dasrath, king of Ajodhya, Singi Rikh, a holy man (muni) of Singi Rampur (three kos east of Famkhabad on the banks a mela of Singi is held) came to Ajodhya. of the Ganges, and where too in consequence requested the intercession of and children, no had Dasrath prayers in his behalf. The result was the the holy man, who offered up whom the eldest was Ram Chandar, the second of children, four birth of fourth Lachhman. In those times the Bh^rath, the third Satrughna and the from its present site to mauza extended have to said is city of Ajodhya