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twice week, and about 5,000 people assemble at a fair in honour of Anandi Debi. The population is 4,297.

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BHADAESA

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Pargana Haweli Oudh Tahsil Ftzabad District Ftzabad.—This little town is situated on the road from Fyzabad to Sultanpur, ten miles south of the former place the little river Madha runs

past

it.

For

its history,

The population

is

Muhammadans

Hindus

...

see account of

as follows

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Haweli Oudh.



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2,306

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of

whom

9 are

WaMbia

4,311

There are six places of Musalman worship, 1,018 houses, all of which have mud walls. There is a. fair at Bhdratkund, at which 5,000 people assemble. Ram Chandar is said to have visited this place in company with his brother Bharat, and the place takes its name from this visit, " Bhayyadars" meaning the meeting of, the brothers.

BHADRI Pargana

—This town

Bihar— Tahsil

Kunda

—District

Paetabgaeh.

on the road from Bihar to Manikpur it is 32 miles from Bela and 28 from Allahabad. The Ganges flows 5 miles to the south. The fort of the Bisen taluqdar of Bhadri was here. Its ruins are still to be seen, covered with picturesque clumps of bamboos. lies



In 1209 Fasli the nazim of the period, Mirza Jani, encamped here, demanded a higher revenue from the taluqdar Daljit Singh, and in the dispute killed him. Numerous other fights occurred here. The population There is one stone temple consists of 1,021 Hindus, and 113 Musalmans. recently erected at a cost of Ks. 10,000 by the present owner.

BHAGWANTNAGAR*—PargfaTia Mallanwan— fa^sii Bilgeam—DisA small town of 25 trict Habdoi. —Bhagwantnagar 3,247 inhabitants. bricks and 62 mud houses, chiefly occupied by Misr Brahmans, one mile to the south of Mallanwdn, pargana Malldnwan, district Hardoi, founded a hundred and eighty years ago during the reign of Aurangzeb by Raja Bhagwant Rae, Diwan at the Delhi Court. It has a considerable manufacture of plates and drinking-vessels from beU-metal (phul). Market

days are "Wednesdays and Sundays.

BHAGWANTNAGAR pargana

Pargana^Tahsil

was formed and the name



By Mr. A. H.

Harington,

c.s.,

VvnwA—District Unao.—This of

Bhagwantnagar given

Assistant Commissioner.

to

it