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commissioned certain Bais Chhattris to drive out the Bhars, and on their succeeding in their attempt, the king gave them the title of Bhale Sultan, which name they still retain. The only antiquity in Isauli is the ruins of an ancient Bhar fort.

ISLAMABAD

BUBAULl—PargaTM

Ba'ngarmau— rcsAsiZ

Safi-

District Unao.— This village lies in pargana Bdngarmau, tahsil Safipur, about 20 miles from the tahsil, and 27 from the sadr station (Unao), in a north-westerly direction. The Kalydni runs about one mile to the north of it. The date of its foundation cannot be exactly traced, Kot. but it was occupied about 800 years ago by Raja Sita of

PUR

Ram

Afterwards Islam Husen Khan, the general of the imperial troops at Delhi, took possession of it, and called it Islamabad Bijhauli. The soil is mostly clay. The village is situated on level ground, and has jungle one mile to the north. The climate is good and the water sweet. There is neither sarae, thana, nor tahsil here. school for Urdu and Persian has been established by Government. There is no bazar, but there are three fairs annually one in March in honour of Debi, one in October, and the third in September in honour of Krishna's birth. Each fair is attended by about 400 persons. Nothing but the usual village wares are manufactured here. There are 454 mud-built houses.

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The population

is

2,495, of

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whom

2,351 are Hindus and 144 Moslems.

ITAURA BUZURG—Pargana Sawn— Tahsil Salon—District Rae

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Bareli. This village, which was founded by the Bhars, is seventeen miles from Rae Bareli south-east, and forty from Partabgarh. The road from Manikpur to Rae Bareli passes through it. There was a great fight here between the Raja of Tiloiand Rae Jagannath Bakhsh in 1245 Hijri. The latter won and retained possession of the village. There is a Government school here.

JAGDiSPUR Pargana— Tahsil

—This pargana

Mus^Cfirkhana

—District

Sultanpur

forms the north-western portion of the tahsil ; it has undergone various changes by the re-arrangement of parganas in 1869. Its area is 99,086 acres, or 155 square miles, divided among 166 mauzas. The cultivated land amounts to 50,948, the culturable to 19,163, the grove land to 8,848, and the barren to 20,127 acres. Of the cultivated area 33,595 acres are irrigated and 17,353 acres unirrigated. Three-fourths of the land of this pargana is level, and a fourth only consists of broken uneven ground. The average depth at which water is found is 45 feet. The Government demand amounts to Rs. 72,091-11-4, the incidence per acre being Re. 1-2-4. The population amounts to 102,183 souls, divided amon g79,956 Hindus and 22,227 Musalmans.

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River. The river Gumti, flowing from the west past this pargana, takes an easterly course through pargana Isauli towards the chief town of the district. It often injures the villages on its banks when in flood.

There

some trade in grain, cloth, and other country produce, which is means of the Rae Bareli and Fyzabad road, but the some extent utilized. Schools have been established at eleven villages. The post-offices are at Nihdlgarh and bazar Sukul, A is

carried on chiefly by river route is also to

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