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range of buildings now in ruins, for his residence. E^e Amar Singh, who was nftzim from 1811 A. D. to 1816, also built a very substantial house for himself, which now serves for a police station and dispensary. As a commercial town Bahraich never seems to have thriven. The inhabitants are poverty-stricken in the extreme, and it is with difficulty that the municipality lately established raises funds to meet its necessary expend-

The trade is almost entirely for local consumption; the total value of goods paying octroi in 1870-71 being Rs. 3,72,276, of which sum E,s. 1,65,756 represented grain, Es. 43,919 sugar and gur, Es. 20,172 ghi Es. 23,839 dried fruits, Es. 27,067 oil, Es. 24,362 spices, dyes, &c. iture.

The through traffic was reckoned at Es. 2,19,594, and consisted principally of gi-ain, Es. 51,988; sugar and gur, Es. 14,238; ghi Es. 42,524; oil Es, 76,950; timber Es. 14,414; and tobacco Es. 10,816; neither of the above returns includes piece goods and copper, in which the local trade is fairly brisk. Hides also come from the north and pass southward in considerable quantity. There is a Government zila school, which, with three branches in various muhallas of the town, numbers 240 scholars under twelve masters. There are also twelve indigenous schools with 211 scholars, who learn, about half of them Persian, and half of them Nagri and Kaithi. The American Methodist mission have stationed a native pastor in the town, who has a school with forty-two boys learning Nagri, The population with that of the suburb of BashirKaithi, and Urdu. ganj numbers 20,213, of whom 10,908, or rather more than half, are Musalmans. There are 4,260 houses, of which 393 are of brick, 43 being The police station has a force of private dwelling-houses, and 350 shops. eighteen foot constables and one mounted, with four officers and a deputy The Government dispensary has an average daily attendance inspector. At the sadr disof forty-five patients, its annual cost being Es. 1,718. tillery there is an annual out-turn of 55,996 gallons of spirits from twentyone stills, yielding a revenue of Es. 28,949.

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Pargana Hisampur Tahsil Kurasar District Bahraich.— (Latitude 27° r 33" N., longitude 81° 32' 03" E.), lies on the left bank of the Gogra, thirty-five miles from Bahraich, on the main road from that place to Lucknow. The river here is spanned from November till May by a bridge of boats, but during the rains the waters rise in many years so high as to flood all the surrounding country on the north bank. Bahrampur itself is fast being cut away by the action of the river, which year by

year here changes its course. It is well-known that centuries ago it flowed immediately under Bahraich, thirty-five miles to the north. The village is said to take its name from Bahram Khan, one of Sayyad Salar's ofiicers, who met his death, in the invasion of 425 H., at the hands of the Bhars, who then held the neighbouring country. The martyr's tomb has only Asif-ud-daula founded a bazar lately been washed away hy the river. The grain barhere, known as Nawabganj, but the trade is but small. gains are all made at Colonelganj, a village fourteen -miles to the east, and Bahrdmpur sees but little of either exports or imports except in transit. The main articles of export from the Bahraich district by this route are
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