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about six miles north of the road from Sitapur cantonments to that of Shdhjahanpur it is about twenty-eight miles north-west of the former and

thirty-eight miles east of the latter.

Latitude 27° 47'



Longitude 83° 27/

Tieffenthaler describes it as " having a brick built palace enclosed with a wall, and adjoining a fort of quadrangular ground plan, and having hexagonal towers." This building and fort were built by the said Nawab at the time of the foundation of the town. The former, in a decayed state, is in the possession of the descendants of the founder, and the latter is in utter ruins The walls of one solitary bastion are standing, and a part of it after necessary repair is occupied by the local police station. Its site is surrounded by an open fertile country, though the land is not of the best quality. Since 1785 it has been Government property, and has been declared such by a judicial decree, dated 27th September 1866. small market is held here twice a week, on Tuesdays and Sundays articles of country consumption are exchanged and sold. The annual average values of Native and European cotton and silk fabrics do not exceed Rs. 500 and

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E.S.

400 respectively.

Population 2,842

AURANGABAD

—Hindus

1,944,

Muhammadans

898.

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Tahsil Misrikh District Sithe residence of the Taluqdar Mirza tapur. Contains 3,000 souls, and Agha Jan, whose ancestor, Bahadur Beg, acquired the surrounding country in jagir from the Emperor Aurangzeb, in whose honour he named the town. It had been previously in existence under the name of Balpur Pasau having been founded by the Panwar Rajputs.

Pargana Atjeangabad

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is four miles to the east from NimkhSr and the Gumti. held twice a week cotton and salt are sold to a considerable amount, the annual value of the sales being put down at Rs. 66,060.

The town

bazar

is



The climate

of the place

one pakka mosque. Hindus.

salubrious, the soil good.

is

To the north there

The boys attending the

school

number

46.

is

It contains only

a tank, held holy by the

The kachcha houses

are 589,

and few pakka.

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AURANGABAD

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Pargana Tahsil Muhamdi District Kheei. This the most southerly in Kheri, projecting into the Sitapur disit is bounded on the north by Magdapur, on the east and west by trict the Kathna and Gumti the latter a navigable stream. It lies high, the town being 484 feet above the sea, the same elevation as Lakhimpur the pargana

is







drainage

is

good.

At the time of the assessment the pargana consisted of 114 regularly demarcated mauzas, of which nine were jungle grants along the banks of Subsequently, certain grants were amalga,mated with the river Kathna. adjoining vilUages. Therefore 107 villages, including 4 muafi villages, have been separately demarcated they comprise an area of 61,377 acres, out

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