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constructed from Dalmau to Lalganj only the southern wall now stands. It is said that Saadat Ali Khan, Nawab of Lucknow, was born in this veryhouse. In 1146 Hijri, during the rule of Nawab Shuja-ud-daula, the rent-free tenures granted by the former king were confiscated, and there was considerable distress in consequence.

In the same year, Pandit Gopal Rao, Marahta, crossed the Ganges from Duab and plundered this town. From that time the grandeur of the place and the respectability of its residents commenced to decline, and continued declining so much that at present it does not exhibit any trace of its former eminence. In the reign of Aurangzeb a battle took place between the Hindus and Muhammadans on the day of the Ashra festival, which cost the life of Shekh Abul Alam, a gentleman of this town, and seven of his companions. In the reign of Muhammad Ali Shah, King of Lucknow, there was a fight between the royal troops stationed in the fort here and the residents of the town, anent a mosque. the

According to the census of February 1869, the population of this town to 5,654, of whom there are 910 Sunni Musalmans and four Shias. Of the 4,940 Hindus, there are 727 Brahmans, 174 Kayaths, 105 Bhats, and 70 Banians, who mostly belong either to Shaivi or Shdkti sects very few of them are Vaishnavis. The remaining 3,664 are of the lower castes, who cannot be properly classified according to sects.

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There are 245 brick-built, and 411 mud-built houses. In addition to the above-mentioned mosques of the Muhammadans, is one temple in honour of Banwari Debi, and this is also a very old

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a sarae with a mosque erected by Hajji Zahid in 1006 Hijri.

There is a Government Anglo-vernacular school here, in which post office and police-station altogether thirty pupils are educated. are also in this town. This was the seat of the tahsil, but in 1864 it was transferred to Lalganj.

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There are three markets, one, Charai Mandi alias Purana Bazar, built Tikaitganj, by time of the kings of the east the other, Maharaja Tikait Rae in 1203 Hijri; and the third, Glynnganj, Wilt Though by Mr. W. Glynn, the Deputy Commissioner, in 1862. some shop-keepers live permanently in the Purana Bazar and Tikaitganj, the regular market days for the former are Sunday and Thursday, and for the latter Saturday and Wednesday. The market at Glynnganj is held on Monday and Friday. A fair is held on the last Monday in Baisakh (April May) near the tomb of Makhdiim Badr-ud-dln Badr Alam. Muhammadans of this town offer oblations and prayers, and display banners in honour of Sayyad Salar Masaiid only a few hundreds assemble. The largest fair here is that on the day of Kdrtiki Puranmashi (on the last day of the month of Kartik (November and December) then the gathering amounts to fifty or sixty thousand, and merchandise, consisting of English cloth, and so on, is brought from Lucknow by the Bareli road, and from Cawnpore and Fatehpur by the road from Fatehpur to Dalmau. in the