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In this temple they replaced the stones " Buddha" and of the fort is of older origin, and is held to have been built by the Bhars. It had for many years been in a state of decay, but about forty years ago, one Datd Eam, a Kashmiri Pandit, on appointment as Tahsildar, rebuilt it. From the Bais temple he removed the stones, and placed them at the door of the more ancient shrine, near which they were found in 1868. tree.

" Buddhi."

The

The temple near the entrance

name Bhadri, together with the probable date when, and circumstances under which, the place was founded, are alike unknown. It possessed a strong fort until A. D. 1858, when all such strongholds were levelled by order of the British Government. Bhadri has acquired celebrity from the events which took place here in A. D. 1802, 1810, and 1833-34 derivation of the

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'BIKAT—Pargana Miseikh

Tahsil miles south-west from Sitapur, and from that place to Hardoi.

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District Sitapxje. Is 12 about 1 mile north of ihe road

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No road, or river, or canal passes through the place. It has a population of 2,058, who are principally Hindus and it belongs to a community of Gaur Chhattris. This distinguishes it from another village of the same name lying in the Machhrehta pargana and owned by Kachhwaha Chhattris.

The town is not notable for anything excepting the excellence of the work turned out by the iron-smiths. There is a school at which 30 boys attend on an average every day. There is no bazar held in it. All the houses are kachcha, and are in number 358. The climate is good, the soil is light, and in the neighbourhood of the town is a large tract of dhak jungle measuring 500 bighas. The proprietors acted well in the mutinies

and were rewarded

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for their loyalty.

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— Tahsil

Bijnatje

Lucknow

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LuCKNOW. Bijnaur the chief town of the pargana of the same name is situated some 8 miles to the south of the city of Lucknow, in latitude 26°44!', longitude 80° 66'. It is off the line of regular traffic, lying some 2 iniles to the east of the Lucknow and Cawnpore road, and is connected with Lucknow by an unmetalled road which stops at Bijnaur.

As a Musalman head-quarters town from which the pargana was. administered under the native rule, it was a place of considerable importance and trade but since the introduction of British rule it has sunk into agricultural quiet, and boasts of nothing but a few brick houses, the residences of some of the decayed Musalman gentry and the Shekh The population is nearly 4,000, of which oneproprietors of the village. and the rest Hindus. It is chiefly agricultural. Muhammadans, third are for its fine cotton adhotars made by the celebrated once was town The weavers of the place, but the manufacture has decayed.

Government schools for primary instruction has been estabthere are 44 names on the register. There is also a and lished here, registration office presided over by the old pargana qdzi.

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By Mr.

H. H. Butts, Assistant Commissioner,

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