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IV.

HISTORY.

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District has always been turbulent and ill-conditioned Statement of towns, houses, wells, and religious buildings in the district History of the district—Colonel Sleeman's description of Eamnagar DhaiDeri, &o. The Bahrela Rajputs the story of Ganga Bakhsh Rawat— taluqas of Eamnagar, Haraha, Surajpur, Jahangirabad, ilaqas of Barai, JRudauli, Bara Banki during the rebellion— Medical aspects.

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District has always been turbulent and ill-conditioned. This district has always been a most turbulent and ill-conditioned one. The reason probably is that the Musalmans and the Rajputs, or, in other words, the town party and the country party, are pretty equally balanced. There are here a number of great Musalman colonies, and their inhabitants have not .

been

so tolerant as in other parts of

Oudh.

a town with a population of over 10,000, the majority of whom are Sunnis and Hindus, there is not a single religious The lords of the soil are Shias they form a edifice for the use of either. mere fraction of the population; but seventeen mosques have been provided The following table conveys some to attest their zeal and their intolerance. interesting information concerning these towns. It appears that there are eighty-six Hindu temples, four Jain shrines, and 144 Musalman mosques In all there are 234 religious edifices. These are of or meeting houses. masonry.

In Zaidpur,

for instance,



of Mahadeo in his ling representation are as numerous as other deities put together.

The temples those of

all

Statement shovn/ng the towns of Bara Banki district with their houses, wells, religious buildings dhc.