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AGÁI—Pargana —Tahsil —District .—This town is on the road to Rae Bareli: the river Sai is three miles to the east. Partabgarh is distant twenty-seven miles: Rae Bareli, twenty-eight. It is rather a collection of hamlets than a town. This used to be the borderland between the taluqas of Rajapur and Rámpur. The population amounts to 4,603 Hindus and 107 Musalmans. There is a Government school attended by 30 children: one temple to Debi, On 'Chait ashtimi ' there is a fair here, attended by about 1,000 people.

AHANKÁRIPUR—Pargana —Tahsil —District .—This village is twenty-two miles from Fyzabad; the road to Akbarpur and also the railway pass through it. One Inchha, a Brahman, received this village as glebe land: he founded a bazar, Gosháinganj; and the wife of Mádho Singh, the Barwar Taluqdar, founded another, called Katra. The town is called after Ahankári Ráe, the Barwar chief, who founded it. The population consists of 1,187 Musalmans, all Sunnis, and mostly weavers by trade; and 1,779 Hindus. There are two mosques and one Government school. There is a considerable trade in hidcs carried on here; they are exported to Calcutta.

AHMADNAGAR-Pargana HAIDARABAD-Tahsil MUHAMDI--District KHERI.—A village in pargana Haidarabad, district Kheri, in which the river Sarayan has its source. The soil is good and well supplied with water. Ruins of a mud fort. 1,350-53 acres. Population 1,272 AIHAR-Pargana DALMAU—Tahsil LALGANJ-District RAE BARELI --- A small town, situated on the road from Bareli to the tahsil station, Lal- ganj, five miles from Dalmau, The population is 2,734, of whom 720 are Brahmans, nearly all worship- pers of Shiva, to whom a temple has been erected. It is considered un- lucky to pronounce the name of the place, and it is locally named Nunia Gion. AJGAIN- Pargana JHALOTAR AJGAIN--Tahsil MOHÁN—District UNAO.-- A large village in pargana Jhalotar Ajgain, lying ten miles north-cast of Unao, on the railway from Lucknow to Cawnpore. There is a station here, it was formerly the head-quarters of a pargana of the same name. It was formerly called Bhánpára, after its founder Bhán Singh, a Dikhit: its name was altered at the bidding of the astrologer in order to mako the place prosperous; it is called Ajgain, from Aja, a name for