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1858 A.D., a great In 1264 F. seven hundred were killed. Population

fight occurred here with the rebels

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There is a bazar here in which the annual sales amount to about

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7,000.

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DALIPTTTRr—Pargana Patti Tahsil Patti District Paetabgaeh. DaKp Singh Bilkharia founded this town; it is five miles from the metalled road to Fyzabad, close to the river Sai, six miles from Bela, and thirty-four miles from Sultanpur. The annals of the family are given under the pargana history.

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is

DALMAU

a Government school and a bazar.

Pargana Dalmau

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Tahsil Lalgajstj District Rae Baeeli. This town stands on the banks of the Ganges, midway on the road from Eae Bareli to Fatehpur, and lies 14 miles north of Fatehpur on the right bank of the Ganges, 16 miles south of the sadr station, and eight miles southeast of the tahsil. It was founded by Dal Deo, the brother of Eaja Ram Deo, of Kanauj, and of the Rathor clan of Chhattris. Dal Deo Was granted this estate by his brother, and he founded this town, giving it the name of Dalmau, but the letter or " Dal" (S) being unknown in the Persian alphabet, Dalmau was changed into Dalmau.

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The town of Manikpur, in the district of Partabgarh, is 82 miles east Dalmau; Satrikh, in the district of Bara Banki, 60 miles north Lucknow 60 miles north-west and Cawnpore 48 miles west. It was included in the Manikpur principality by Mdn Deo, the second brother of the Raja of Kanauj, who was granted the estate of Manikpur by his brother, and founded the town of the same name, calling it after himself, when Dal Deo,

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the Governor of Dalmau, died issueless. Bal Deo, the Raja of Kanauj' and brother of the founders of these towns, was a contemporary of the king Bahrlmgor of Persia ; this town, therefore, may be said to have been founded 1,500 years ago.

Though

stands exactly on the bank of the Ganges, from inundation.

it

protects'it

The soil is chiefly loam, and the surface ravines and dotted with groves.

is

its

great elevation

uneven, intersected with

The

climate in the summer is healthy and pleasant, and in winter is the rainy season, when the Ganges overflows its banks, it is very unhealthy. Though there are no remains of buildings, tradition affirms that the Bhars of the Ahir tribe took possession of this estate after the death of E£e Partd.b Chand of Kanauj in 530 A.D.

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The town was castes,

at that time in a flourishing state, and nearly all the as Khattri, Banian, Sar^ogi, Goldsmith, Gharw^r, and

inhabited

R^wat

it.

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