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BIH

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Population 4,130. There are five taluqdars, it has become much reduced. masonry houses, four temples to Mahadeo, and one tomb to Sayyad Jalal, there is a thana, and a Government school here attended by 52 boys ; the tahsil has been recently removed.

BIHAR Pargana Bihae— Tahsil PuRWA

District

Unao.

—The

town

twelve miles east from Purwa and 28 miles south-east of Unao on the road leading from the town of Rae Bareli; the river Lon flows to the west, and is spanned by a handsome bridge erected by the English Government. Another road leads to Eanjitnagar. The water is good. The surrounding country is rather bare from the presence of lisar. .great battle took place here between the Edos of Daundia Khera and the Eaja of Mauranwan and the chief of Shankarpur, all barons of the Bais clan. This happened 100 years ago. The population is 2,242, of whom 343 are Musalmans. There are two temples to Debi, a masonry tank, and a school, religious fair is held in which 100 boys are taught Urdu and Nagri. in honour of Biddia Dhar faqlr, at which 5,000 people assemble. lies

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BIHAR Pargana— Tahsil Purwa— District

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Unao. This pargana seems been granted by the Bais (after the annihilation of the Bhars) to the Janwars, which clan still holds a great part of it in their possession. The town Bihar is said to have been founded by Birbhiin, the ancestor of the present taluqdars, Arjun Singh and Mahesh Bakhsh. Birbhan named it "Birhar" after his own name, but by general usage it has been corrupted into Bihfo. A far more probable story is, that it is called from Vihar, a Buddhist monastery. It was established as a pargana by Akbar Shah, and was fixed upon as the seat of a tahsil in 1267 Fasli (A. D. 1860) by the British Government, in the Rae Bareli district. to have

In the last change of parganas it was placed in the Purwa tahsil, and the tahsil of Bihar was abolished. This pargana now comprises 26 villages and is in shape a parallelogram 7 miles in length from north to south and 5 miles in breadth from east to west. Its area is 24 square miles. It is bounded on the east by pargana Khiron, on the west by parganas Panhan, Bhagwantnagar, Patau, on the north by pargana Khiron, and on the south by pargana Bhagwantnagar.

The system

of tenure

is

as follows:

Taluqdari

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22

Zamindari

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2

Pattidari

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2

26

villages.

Their total area is 15,130 acres; the revenue amounts to Rs. 39,648, and the rate per acre being on an average Rs. 2-9-11.

The population is chiefiy composed of Brahmans and Bais Chhattris of the higher castes, and Ahirs and Chamdrs of the lower. The Musalmans number very few. The total population amounts to 13,086 of which 12,788 are Hindus and 298 Muhammadans. It is 500 to the square mile. There are two rivers in this pargana, viz., the Lon and the Kharhi. The Lon takes its rise from a tank in Unao, and passing through Kundarpur,