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Some say he was a qazi in Masalid Ghazi's army. His descendknown as the qazis. Some three or four generations later came

Qazi Mahmiid, one of the most famous of the family, and it was at this time that Molvi Zia-ud-din, descended from Shah Shuja Kirmani, an Usmani Shekh, came into the country.

Lucknow was then ruled from Jaunpur, and the Sharqi king gave the new comer the village of Atiamau and other villages in Kursi to hold in rent-free tenure. His son was Makhdiim Bandagi Azim Sani, the celebrated tomb

saint whose

is

still

shown in Lucknow.

He had two

sons,

Ahmad

Faiyaz and Muhammad Faiyaz; the son of Ahmad Faiyaz, Molvi Muhibbulla, married the daughter of Qazi Mahmud of Dewa ; Molvi Muhibbulla had a son, Maulana Abd-us-Salam, who was mufti in the reign of Shah jahan, and his son was Qazi-ul-Quzzat at Delhi, and he it was that seems first to have acquired the proprietary right in Dewa and a few other villages.

The two principal muhallas are the Shekh and Hajjaji muhallas already mentioned and there are other muhallas dedicated to the different Hindu workmen and castes. In the centre is a high mound, on which the Government fort was built, and where the tahsildar and other Government ofiicials On the west was a handsome sarde of red brick, built by a former lived. chakladar, Afzal Ehan, but now not used. Not much trade was ever carried on owing to the propinquity of the great Bais plunderers and taluqdars of Behtai and Qasimganj, who came to an unhappy end in 1257 F., when the resident, Colonel Sleeman, moved the king to have them

punished. is here a flourishing tribe of Kachheras, or workers in glass, The drive a good trade in manufactures of glass bracelets and dishes. Government school population is 3,600. The number of houses is 521. The bazar sales is established here, attended by some 50 to 60 pupils. amount to Es. 4,892-4-9 ; coarse crockery, like white delf, is also made.

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DHARAMPUR*

Pargana Katiaei Tahsil Bilgeam District Haedoi. Dharampur (870 inhabitants,) a little village of 133 mud houses, on the right bank of the Ramganga in the Katiari pargana, Hardoi, eleven miles east from Fatehgarh and fourteen west from Sandi. It is the first encamping ground on the routes from Fatehgarh to Lucknow and Hardoi. It is noticeable as being the residence of the loyal Raja Sir Hardeo Bakhsh, K.c.s.i., of Katiari, and the place where, in 1857, he sheltered Messrs. Edwards and Probyn and other fugitives from Fatehgarh, in the fort built by his grandfather, Thakur Eanjit Singh, in 1792 A.D.

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DHARMA'NPUR Parganaf— Tahsil

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Any ara— District

Baheaich.—

the extreme north-west comer of the Bahraich It has a length of 36 miles and an average breadth of about nine district. miles, being bounded on the north by Naipal, on the east by Naip£l and the Ndnpara pargana, on the south by the Nanpara pargana, and on the west by the Kauridla river, which, from a point about five miles north of Bhartapur to Thutua, the southern extremity of the pargana, forms here

Dharmanpur pargana



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By Mr. By Mr.

lies at

A. H. Harington,

H.

S.

Boys,

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Assistant Commiseiouer.

Assistant Commissioner.