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jagir to one Mirza Bahadur Beg, who founded a and called its name Aurangabad, in honour This was in 1670 A. D. The Mirza did not long of his royal patron. What remained at his death was divided possess this enormous property. between his two sons, the elder taking what is now known as the Aurang-

Emperor Aurangzeb in new town where Balpur

stood,

abad taluqa, the younger taking the Qutubnagar

estate.

As the pargana stands now, it consists of thirty-four villages, seven of which are a recent addition from Misrikh, and these are distributed as twenty-seven, taluqdar of Aurangabad, one, taluqdar of Saadatfollows nagar, "Raja Shamsher Bahadur Beg, one, Musalman zamindar, one, Gosham zamindar, four, Kayath zamindars. Raja Shamsher Bahadur It is noticeable that there got his villages on the occasion of a marriage. are no Rajput zamindars in the pargana, and that too, though before the time of Mirza Bahadur Beg above-mentioned, it was owned by Panwdr

Rajputs.

For notices of the Qutubnagar and Saadatnagar taluqdars, the reader is referred to the history of pargana Misrikh, in which their estate and ancestral villages are situated.

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AURAS

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Pargana Mohan—Auras Tahsil MoniN District Unao. Lies sixteen miles north-west from tahsil, and twenty-six miles north An unmetalled road from Unao to Sandila from sadr station Unao. The Sai runs past one mile to the south, where it has passes through it. lately been crossed by a masonry bridge.

Some five hundred years ago the merchant tribe called " Ursaha," residents of Sandila, made this their route for traffic. At that time there was a great wood here. Ram Mai, one of the tribe, had the jungle cut down and peopled the village, calling it Aurds after the tribe of Ursaha. The

loam in some places it is very light. The surface no jungle near, climate good, and water fresh. A school for Urdu and Nagri established here by Government. There are 46 boys 41 Hindus and five Musalmans. There are two markets weekly, where are to be obtained com, tobacco, vegetables and English and country-made cloths. Annual sales amount to about Rs. 500. Earthenware, gold and silver soil is principally

there

is level,



is

trinkets, are the principal manufactures.

follows



—Hindus, 1,330

Muhammadans, 47



The population

is

divided as

total 1,377.

There 'are 307 mud-built houses. Latitude 26° 54' north



Longitude 80° 33'

east.

B. BABHNIPAIR* Pargana

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Tahsil TJinAJiLA— District Gonda.— The smallpargana in the Gonda district, covers an area of 42,985 acres, or 67 square miles. It lies on the southern frontier, and is bounded on the north by the parganas of Manikapur and Burhapara, on the south and east

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By Mr. W.

0. Benett,

c. s.,

Assiatant Commissioner.

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