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GHA—GOG

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a ghat on the Ganges. At that time the river skirted the village, but has since then receded, and so changed its course that now it runs four miles The descendants of Ghatamdeo are still to be found here. to the south. fair is held in November The pargana is chiefly colonised by the Bais. The soil is chiefly at village Tehra, where some 4,000 people congregate. loam, but towards the river is sandy. This pargana is eight miles long from north to south, and seven broad from east to west; it contains twentynine villages, 16,937 acres, and a population of 16,180. Water is to be found sixty feet from the surface, except near the river, where it is found about fifteen feet from the surface.

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distribution of property

is

as follows: .A. el's s

Taluqdari Zamindari

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15,056 1,414

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Pattidari

The land revenue

is

Es. 22,748, or Re. 1-5-7 per acre, and 2,387 acres

are under grove.

The

history of the Bais

is

given under article Rae Bareli.

GHA'TAMPUR KALKN— Pargana Gu/iTAwevR—Tahdl F-uewa—District

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Unao. This town is situated twelve miles south of its tahsil, and eighteen miles south-east of the sadr station Unao. There is no river near this About 1,700 years ago Ghatamdeo, Tiwari Brahman, village, nor any road. peopled this town. At that time the Ganges flowed past here, and the town was named

whose heirs are still in possession. The and water fresh. There is one school where Urdu and Nagri are taught; it is attended by thirty boys, all Hindus. No bazar or fair here. Goldsmiths and carpenters work here land

is

after its founder,

bare, soil sandy, climate healthy,

very well.

The population

is

Brahmans Other caatea

divided as follows: Hindus. 977 773 1,750

Mixsalmans.

59

Total.

1,809

There are 372 mud-built and three masonry houses and four temples (one Shiwala and three to Debi) Latitude Longitude

GOGRA.

26° 22' N. 80° 46' E.

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The Gogra (Ghogra in Thornton) is the great river of Oudh, flowing south-east. It is properly the main trunk of the river system of which the Chauka, Ul, Dahawar, Suheli, Kauriala in Kheri, the Girwa, Sarju in Bahraich, are the branches, spreading out like a fan, north, east, and west. It is the name applied to this trunk after the Sarda, Chauka and the Kauriala have united at Bahramghat. It is probable that there was originally a river Gogra in Kheri, one of the series whose existing or abandoned channels seam the country from the Ul to the Mohan; there is now a small affluent of the Ul bearing this name.