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Mansab Ali and Hashmat Ali, the Chakladars of Mallanwfin, Kachhandan, Sandila and Malihabad, threw two-thirds of them into pargana Sandila. tells that five hundred years ago, Tiwari Brahmans that they were expelled by Kachhwdhas, and that years afterwards Balai Kurmi assisted the Kachhwahas to beat off a Musalman raid upon Marhi from Roshanpur near Bilgram, and was rewarded by them with a strip of their jungle.

Another tradition

held the tract



BALMIAR BARKHA'R—Pargana Muhamdi— Tahsil Muhamdi—District

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Kheri. ^A village in pargana Muhamdi, situate at a distance of about four miles from the west bank of the Gumti, having a tank towards the north-west. In Hindu books it is related to have been the residence of RSja Bairat, the ruins of whose fort are still seen. There are visible marks of its having once been a magnificent city. There is a Hindu temple. Balmiar Barkhar and several other villages formed the jagir of -Raja Newal Rae, who was deputy of Nawab Mansiir Ali Khan of Oudh. The said Rdja transferred by gift this Balmiar Barkhar to Nirohin, who was ancestor of the Chaube community, to whom it now belongs, and whose right has been confirmed by a judicial decree of 25th October 1867 A. D.

The population amounts Muhammadans. *

to 419, of

which 409 are Hindus and only 10

BALRAMPTJR Townf—Pargana

BalrImpvu-^—Tahsil UTEAULA^-Disthe largest town in the Gonda district, is situated on the north bank of the Suwawan river, and about two miles to the south of the Rdpti. One kachcha road connects it with Gonda, from which it is distant twenty- eight miles; and another runs through it from TJtraula, sixteen miles to the east, to Bahraich, which is forty miles to the removable bridge-of-boats at the Sisia Ghat admits of the north-west. transit of carts across the R£pti from December to the beginning of the rainy season. The site, a little raised to the north, slopes into swamps along the Suwawan, and the overflows of that river and the Rapti join during the rains, covering all but a few high spots, and occasioning great misery at the time, and some fever when the floods abate. trict

GoNBA.

—Balrampur, A

The population

at the last census

numbered

14,026, of

which 3,402 were

Muhammadans and there are 3,035 houses, of which only 25 are of brick. Of the religious buildings, 37 are dedicated to Mahadeo, 9 to Vishnu, 5 to

Mahabir and there are 17 mosques, none of any great pretenAbout a mile to the north of the town, the Mahdrdja a few years ago noticed a small brick temple dedicated to Bijleshwari Debi, and remarked that, were it not for the sacred banian tree which shaded it, he would build the goddess a lofty house of stone. On that very night, it is said, the tree was uprooted by a hurricane, and the Mab^rija is now Kali, 2 to



sion.

• For an account of the antiquities of this place, see article Kheri. t By W. C. Benett, Esq., c. s., Assistant Commissioner.