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BADO SARAI

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Fargana Bado Sarai

— Tahsil Fatehpue—District Baea

district road from Ramnagar to Banki. Bado Sarai is Daryabad, about twenty miles north-east of the sadr, and is said to have been founded some five hundred years ago by Badd<i Shah, a faqir. It lies 3 J miles west of the river Gogra.

situated on the

Latitude 27° north, and longitude 81° 30'

There are several muhallas or wards

east.

—muhalla

Rastogian (a caste of

Banians), muhalla Bazdar£n

(formerly king's regimental bandsmen), muhalla Mah^ Brahmanan. To the west of the river lies the shrine of Mald,mat Shah, faqlr, who died about one hundred and fifty years ago. It is not visited by people from a distance, but is considered a place of great Offerings are daily made, and the disciple sanctity in the neighbourhood. in charge, after putting aside what he requires for his own use, leaves his hut at dusk, and with a peculiar cry calls the jackals, who dispose of the remainder. The people credit the jackals, with a supernatural sagacity, in distinguishing between the gifts which have been offered up from sincere motives, and those which the donors have given only to be seen of men, asserting that the animals eat the former and refuse the religious tiger is also said to come over from Bahraich and pay latter. an annual visit to the shrine. There are a great number of petty Musalman proprietors. During the reign of Nawab Asif-ud-daula, the pargana of Bado Sarai was held as a jaglr by one Afrid Ali, an eunuch, who gave away numerous plots of ground rent-free to the Musalman inhabitants of this town, and of Katra, a Muhammadan village situated half a mile east of Bado Sarai.

A

At a

distance of four miles east-south-east of the town faqirs called Sattnami.

is

the temple of

Jaganndth Das, of the caste of In front there fair

is a fine ijrick tank, in which thousands bathe during the held in April and October.

BADO SARAI Pargana— Tahsil pargana

Fatehpue

— District Baea Banki. —This

west of the Gogra river, east of pargana Bhitauli and Daiyabad. It partly consists of the high lands west of the old bank of the river, and partly of the low tarai extending to the present channel. This part of the pargana requires no irrigation. Its area is forty-eight square miles, of which twenty-four are cultivated. There are fifty-six villages with a population of 27,4.13, or 571 to the square mile. Of these, 4,550 are Musalmans. The pargana is called from the town, which see. lies

was the property of the Raikwars its administrative histhat related by the q^nHngos it is reprinted here as a specimen of the official annals of an Oudh district, they merely record the changes of oppressors. It anciently

tory

is





Formerly the parganas Bado Sarai, Ramnagar, Muhammadpur, and Lalpur-Rampur Mathura (trans-Gogra), formed pargana Sailuk The Amil of Oudh resided in Bado Sarai, whither the collections were brought.

The q^nungos

all belonged to one family. On Surat Singh's ancestors acquiring power, the other parganas were separated from Bado Sarai.