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There are 1,693 houses of which 732 are masonry; and unusually large There are &6 Hindu temples, of which 63 are in honor of proportion. Vishnu and 33 of Mahadeo ; there are 36 mosques. There is also a vernacular school. There is little trade at Ajodhya. The great fair of the Ramnaumi, at which 500,000 people assemble, is held here ; it is described in the district article Fyzabad.

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Pargana Muhamdi Tahsil Muhamdi District Kheri. pargana Muhamdi, having groves towards the north and The country is well north-east, and a scrub jungle to the north-west. watered from tanks and wells. Akbarabad belongs to Raja Musharraf Ali Khan, Taluqdar of Magdapur. It was lost by his family about A. D. 1784. His father. Raja Ashraf Ali Khan, recovered it in A. D. 1836.

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AKBARPUR-SINJHAULI Pargana*— Tahsil Akbkrfvr—District ZABAD.

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to the days of the

Emperor Akbar, the

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capital of this pargana

was called Sinjhauli. This name is to be traced to Sojhawal Rawat, a chief amongst the Bhars, who built a fort, calling it after himself Sojhawalgarh, in which he lived and ruled. Even after the dispersion of the Bhars, Sojhawalgarh continued to be the seat of the Government revenue officers, and in process of time the name became con-upted into Sinjhauli.

In the days of Akbar, the fort, bridge, and bazar of Akbarpur were Thenceforth the and to them that Emperor's name was given. collections were made in this fort.

built,

From that time the pargana was entered in the official records as Akbarpur-Sinjhauli. It is bounded on the north by Tanda, on the south by Surharpur, on the east by Birhar, on the west by Majhaura.

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It is said that in former days the neighbourhood of Akbarpur was covered with jungle, in which resided a famous saint, whose name was Sayyad Kamdl.-f- This man, it is affirmed, was killed by freebooters, and his body buried within the precincts of the present fort, where his tomb is still pointed out. On hearing of the murder of this martyr, the Emperor is said to have ordered the erection of the bridge and fort the latter, in view to the suppression of such crimes in future.

Akbarpur, the capital of the pargana, is a Muhammadan town, which was formerly of some importance, and still contains ruins of fine buildings a sarae, imambara, and old tombs. On the high west or left bank of the river Tons is the old fort and the fine masonry bridge already mentioned spans the river and the low alluvial land which extends for some hundreds of feet eastward on the right bank. Within the fort is

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By

A different man from the

P. Carnegy, Esq., Commissioner,

Kamal Pandit mentioned

in the

Chdndipur Birhar

article.