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 FYZ was on bad terms with removed to Lucknow.

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and aimed at appropriating her property,

The pivot upon which all the modern local history of a district like Fyzabad turns is the possession of the land. Immutable custom sways nearly everything else. There have been, except very lately, no religious disturbances even, much less wars no extensive proselytism there has been no foreign invasion there has been no change of sovereignty, no great inventions such as printing press, steam engine, railway, electric telegraph, power loom the tribal or caste system, the law of inheritance, the dress, the ornaments, the food, the language, the very boats and carts and ploughs, all are the same as 1,500 years ago. The tribal tenure of land, on the contrary, has fluctuated extremely, and as its distribution sheds much light on the internal condition of the district, details may be







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The following are the principal tribes of Chhattris in the old district of Fyzabad, with the numbers of villages held by them in proprietary posThe principal change effected by the alteration of boundaries is session. the exclusion of the Rajkumars, who own the greater part of the parganas

given.

now

transferred to Sultanpur.

Name

of tribe.