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FAT—FIR

399

souls per square mile. Musalmans number 11,511 against Hindus 82,282 the proportion of the former being 14 per cent.

Here in Sihali is the original seat of the Khanzadas, to which family belong the great taluqdars of Mahmudabad, Bhatwamau, and Bilahra, and the Shekhzadas of FatehpUr are connections of the family of the same name once so powerful in Lucknow.

The pargana is

The

picturesquely situated on the high lands above the Gogra.

soil is light



mainly from small

irrigation is

wells, in

which earthen

pots are used.

The

principal towns are Fatehpur, Bilahra,

and

Sihali.

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FATEHPUR—Pargfawa

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Fatehpttr Taksil Fatehpue District Baea Banki. Fifteen miles north-north-east of the sadr, was founded about 1321 A.D. by Fateh Muhammad Khan, one of the Delhi princes. There is a thana, a tahsil, and an Anglo-vernacular grant-in-aid school, which is

—

well attended.

an imambara called the Molvi S^hib'sv but he is said to have been one Molvi Earimat Ali, an ofiSicer of high rank at the court of Nasir-ud-din Haidar. The building is only used during the muharram. There are many temples one, a rather fine- one, built by Bakhshi Harparshad. There is an old masjid supposed to have been built in the time of Akbar, called satburji, but it is only interesting from its antiquity. The present owner of the ground attached to the masjid holds a sanad purporting to have been granted by Akbar himself There. are masonry houses in abundance, and many others The town beArs the usual aspect of decay common to most Muin riiins. salman settlements since the fall of their dynasty. Shekh Husen Ali, formerly naib of Raja Nawab Ali Khan, built a mosque and a small house and laid out a fine garden, but the present proprietor, Ali Husen, is too poor to keep it up, and the garden is fast becoming a jungle.

The most imposing

Who

•

the molvi was

is

structure

not

is

known



Special markets are held on Mondays and Thursdays, but there is a good deal of grain is brought from daily market, also well attended. the trans-Gogra district, and there is a good sale of English cloth. There

A

are

many

weavers.

The roads from Daryabad, Ramnagar, Bara Banki, and Sitapur meet here.

The Of

total population

whom Hindus

And Musalmans

are

amounts to

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...

...

...

-

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All the mosques and the vast majority of the the Sunni sect.

Latitude 27° 10' north, longitude 81° 15'

7,194 3,267 3,927

Muhammadans

belong to

east.

FIROZABAD Pargana^— Tahsil Nighasan—Disirici Kheei.— Firozabad between the Chauka and the Kauridla, running ^f i]^q Chauka the river Dahdwar is the bound^^^^ ^j^g ^gg^^ separating -it from Dhaurahra, and

lies description. General Natural features.

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