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distance of three miles west of the Chauka, having groves to the north west, and a mosque to the east. It is 80 miles north from Lucknow

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73 miles east from Shahjahdnpur latitude 28° north, longitude 81° There are three temples and one mosque.

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During the mutiny of 1857, the fugitives from Shdhjahanpur and Muhamdi, escaping towards Lucknow, sought the protection of the Dhaurahra raja, but he, being pressed by the Lucknow darMr, gave them up to their enemies. For this disloyalty to British rule, the raja was tried and hanged his estates were confiscated, and a' portion of them, comprising seventeen villages containing 43 square miles, was made over as part of a grant to

Captain John Hearsay, of the old Oudh Contingent, for good service rendered to the British Government. This estate has been sold by Captain Hearsay to Colonel Boileau, late of the Bengal Cavalry, who has again sold it to the Raja of Kaptirthala. There are eighteen brick wells, but all the

The place is of some interest in local annals. Rdja Jodha Singh was killed here in a great fight by Raja Sitalparsh^d. See the account of pargana Dhaurahra. The place was originally the capital of a Pasi monarchy. houses, 845, are of mud.

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DHAURAHRA Pargana— Tahsil NighaSAN—District Kheei.—Dhaurahra between the Chauka on the south and the Kauridla on the north. Its eastern boundary is the Dahawar, almost to the source of that river, The western boundary is an artificial one, in a deep lake near Kafara. separating it from pargana Nighasan. It is 25 miles long, 13 miles broad, containing 261 square miles, of which 145 are cultivated and 72 capable of cultivation, divided into 117 villages. The pargana, like Firozabad, The consists of alluvial deposits from the Kauriala and Chauka rivers. southern parts of the pargana, and all along the bank of the Chauka, are annually swept by the latter river, which has here a very great fall from Pachperighat to Mallapur, in a direct line not more than 40 miles, the level of the stream lowers from 451 feet above the sea to 376 feet, a. faU of 76 feet ; the Kauriala only falls 45 feet in the same distance. Along with Firozabad, then, this pargana forms an isosceles triangle, the rivers abovenamed joining at a very acute angle from two sides, and pargana Nighasan the base line to the north-west. Dhaurahra itself is a quidrilalies



The teral cut off the north of this area, extending from river to river. southern, the Chauka, both cuts more land away and benefits the cultivaIts current is often four miles per hour, and the tion to a greater extent. heavy deposit which is brought down is spread over the whole country for many miles, to a depth varying from three inches to three feet each year, and rivalling the Nile mud in fertility.

The banks of the river on the north of the pargana have already been raised by this deposit, and the entire level of the country is rapidly rising. village called Unchgaon was, a few years ago, as its name denotes,

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