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are held twice a week, and the annual sales of grain amount to Rs 14,500. Coarse cloth called " dhotar " is manufactured. The situation is rather flat, but the climate is healthy, and the water good. This town has no history worthy of relation. Qamar Ali, formerly Darogha under king Nasir-ud-din, resided here.

Habib-ur-Rahman was a chakladar under the Oudh king, and holds a Another native, Ghulam Ali Khan, con-

large estate under the English. structed a mosque and sarae.

ASOHA PARASANDAN Pargana—TahsWPvRW a.—District Unao.— One Asa Rikh, a devotee who used to reside here, founded the town and called it Asohama Qila. See also Elliot's Chronicles of Unao, pages 13 and 14, " Mythic age." This pargana, like the others, is first heard of under this name in the time of Akbar Shah. There are no traditions ascertainable connected with this pargana. There is a tomb of one Hazrat Shah in At the latter place a fair village Kantab, and also a temple to Mahabir. is held every year in the month of Jeth, where some 2,000 persons conThe Bais are said to have driven oiit the Ahirs and settled gregate. themselves on the lands of this pargana. The soil to the south and east is mostly sand, to the north and west loam and clay.

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crops chiefly

grown are bajra and

through this pargana, which prises 42 villages. Tte area

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barley.

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ia acres

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river

runs

12 miles long by 10 miles broad, and com-

34,237. The assessment falls at There are 1587 acres under groves. The last census Rs. 1-3-3 per acre. returns give 31,323 as the number of inhabitants.

The land revenue amounts

to Rs.

The Sengar Chhattris are the principal inhabitants of Asoha. Elliot "In the year 1527, when Babar Shah was stiU engaged writes as follows: in reducing the many independent chiefs of Hindustan, and before his great victory over Rana Sanga, several of the Afghan leaders who had served under the preceding Lodi dynasty, came in and submitted to him. Among these was Shekh Bayazid, who received a jagir of a crore of dams (2^ lacs of rupees) in Oudh. Subsequently, he seems to have been put in a kind of general command of this province (he might be called the subahdar, only that that term is hardly correct for this date), and to have taken advantage of it to rebel.

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Joined by his brother Mardf Farmlili, and by another Afghdn, Shekh Biban, he opposed Babar's crossing the Ganges at Bangarmau, and made a long running campaign of it, till at last he was subdued. This Shekh Bayazid had in his service two Sengar Rajputs whom he brought from Jagmohanpur, across the Jumna, by name Jagat Sah and Gopal Singh. They raised and commanded a cavalry regiment which was cantoned near the village of Simri, in pargana Asoha, and after his defeat, they settled quietly down in the pargana, making Kantha their head-quarters. For