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There are only two Chhattris. There are three mosques, two temMahadeo, and one to Debi. A small police station or chauki, and a

Government school are among the

BASORHI Pargana^Tahsil Ram

institutions of the place.

Sanehi

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District

Bara Banki.

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This,

small pargana lies north of Mawai Maholdra and south of Daryabad. The river Kalydni, abounding in ravines, and bordered by high jungly banks, is on the west. Its area is 34 square miles, of which 25 are cultivated there are 44 villages, of which 14| belong to taluqdars and 29i- to zamindars. The population is 22,954, being at the rate of 675 to the square mile. Of these, 4,369 are Musalmans. The pargana was a very turbulent one under the native sovereigns of Oudh ; here is an incident culled by Sleeman from the annals of the neighbourhood.

Amil rode by my side, and I asked him about the case of the marriage whatyou heard from Seoraj-od-Deen is.all true. Imam Buksh had a strong fort in his estate of Ouseyree, five miles to our " The

procession." " Sir," said he, "

where he had a formidable gang that committed numerous dacoitees and highway robberies in the country around. I was ordered to attack him with all my force. He got intimation, and assembled his friends to the number of five thousand. I had not half the number. We fought till he He then lost seventy men, and I had thirty killed and fifteen wounded. He continued, fled to the jungles, and I levelled his fort with the ground. however, to plunder, and at last seized the bridegroom and all the marriage The family was very party, and took them to his bivouac in the jungles. respectable and made application to me, and I was obliged to restore him I attacked him to his estate, where he has lived ever since in peace. in November 1848, and he took off the marriage party in February " But" said a poor hackery-driver who was running along by following." my side, and had yesterday presented me a petition " You forgot to get back my two carts and bullocks which he still keeps and uses for his own purpose, though I have been importuning you ever since." " And what " He tied up and did he do to you when he got you into the jungles ?" flogged all who seemed respectable and worth something, such as merchants and shop-keepers, and poked them with red-hot ramrods till they paid all they could get, and promised to use all the influence and wealth of their

families to force the Amil to restore him to his estate on his own terms right,

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" Yes, Sir, we were " And were the parties married after their release ?" released in April, after the Amil had been made to consent to his terms, and they were married in May ; but I could not get back my two carts." " I " And on what terms did you restore this Imam Buksh to his estate ?" granted him a lease, sir, said the Amil, at the same rate of five thousand rupees a year which he had paid before."*

Area of

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 * Sleeman'a journey through Oudh, Vol. IL,

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p. 252.

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