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This is a place of great antiquity, and wiis known befdre the conquest as Jasnaul, from Jas, a raja of the Bhar tribe, who is said to have founded it some nine hundred years ago. With a change of proprietors came a change of name. The Musalman owners divided the lands into twelve shares, over which the respective proprietors quarrelled so incessantly that they were called the " Barah Banke," or twelve quarrelsome men. Banka, in Hindi, meaning a bully or brave. The present coparceners fully keep the reputation established by their ancestors. Others derive the name from ban, meaning wood or jungle, and interpret Bara Banki as the twelve shares of jungle. The lands belongmg to this town are much sub-divided, and the inhabitants are chiefly small Musalman The American Mission has established proprietors and their dependants. a school in the town, under the supervision of a native preacher. belonging to

it.

—

Muhammadan

The

population, with Nawabganj-, given under that town.

amounts

to 14,4'89.

Further particu-

lars are

Farganoi Maholi

BAEA'GAON

— Tahdl

—District

Misrikh

Sitaptje.

—

Baragaon, in pargana Maholi, district Sitapur, lies north-west from Sitapur 17 miles as the crow flies. No high road, canal, or river, passes through it. The nearest road is that which joins Maholi to Mitauli ^nd Kasta, and that is five miles distant. The population numbers 2,066, who there not being a masonry house in the town live in 442 mud houses with the exception of a few shops in the bazar. It dates from very Two good bazars are remote times, and its founders were Hindus. held here, at which cotton, salt and iron from the North -Western ProThe bazar contains also a number of sugar-dealers' shops vinces are sold. in which sugar made on the spot is sold, and there are also cloth-merehants and mahajans. The yearly value of these sales is estimated at Es. 57,852. The town boasts of a school, at which the daily attendance averages 57. Besides a shivala there are seven masonry tanks. The climate and soil are both good. ,



BARAI Pargana Bihae— Tahsil Kvsda—District village lies near the road

Paetabgaeh.

—This

from Bihar to Manikpur, 87 miles from Bela and

40 from Allahabad.

The population consists of 1,901 Hindus and 712 Musalmans. There is a tomb here of one Pir Bahr£m, to which Musalman disputants gather and take an oath over the saint's remains.

There

is

a Government school.

BARETHA—Pttrgrawa Haweli Oxtkh— Tahsil ¥YZABAD~District FvzABAD. —A small town three miles from Fyzabad the place is said to

have been founded by Raja Ram Chandar's washerman (Baretha). It stands on the bank of the Gogra. The road from Surajkund to Ajodhya and the road from Fyzabad to Ajodhya cross each other here. The population is 2,550, of whom 50 are Muhammadans. There are 610 mud-walled houses. There, are 32 temples, of which 27 are in honour of Vishnu and 5 of Mahddeo; there is also one masonry mosque. Three-fifths of the population are of the Vishnivite sect.