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towards the centre a good deal of clay the proportion of sandy soil varies in the flooded part sand is sometimes deposited, but generally loam. The percentage of the former is at any rate under five per cent. that entered in the assessed area is under one per cent.



The

history of the pargana

particulars

is

A few

given under pargana Dhaurahra.

may be added here.

Prior to the formation of Dhaurahra into a, pargana in 1151 F., Firozabad in great measure belonged to the Bisens.. They were expelled, after repeated conflicts, by the Jangres of Bhur they in turn were brought low in 1184 F., when Raja Jodh Singh was killed, and from this time dat^ the beginnings of the two taluqas, which now embrace the entire pargana, the ancient shooting grounds of Firoz Shah. One Chain Singh, a relative of the deceased Jodh Singh, was allowed, in or about 1200 F., a few patches of land rent-free for his maintenance these were situated north of Dhaurahra, He gradually increased his possession, and in 1240 F. he acquired the muhal of Isanagar, which embraced the northern portion of the pargana this he has retained undiminished through all three settlements. On the south, on the other hand, we find across the Dahawar, in the adjoining district of Sitapur, a Raikwar Ghhattri chief, whose ancestor had separated from the main branch, that of Baundi in Bahraich. He had received five villages as his portion. His descendants first acquired Mallapur with a few adjoining villages in the Sitapur district, and then advancing across the Dahawar, they managed to bring under were the their control the whole of the southern part of the pargana. ancient possessors is far from clear the only documentary evidence on the subject is to be found in some papers filed by a Brahman who had the village of Gopalpur. In one of these, Tikait R^e, the ndib of Asif-ud-daula,





Who



to this Brahman's ancestor, but little light is shed on the matter. No claims have been lodged to old zamindaris the Bisens have utterly disappeared the Kayaths and Kurmis, who did acquire a zamindari right in the adjoining pargana, Dhaurahra, were not so fortunate in thia one. In fact, utter darkness has settled upon the history of Firozabad.

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FYZABAD

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Division Fyzabad, a division of British territory in Oudh, comprises three districts, whose names, areas, and population are given in the accompanying table

Area and Population.