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registration oflS.ce is kept at Gulabganj. The only fair in this pargana that held in celebration of the Ramlfla at Nih%arh.

The

chief places in the pargana are



Nihalgarh, with a population of Sathan, ditto ditto Eishni, ditto ditto

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though they are ancient

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ones.

name Jagdispur is

attributed to one Jagdis, a Brahman zamindar during the Bhar supremacy. There were, it is alleged, two parganas, viz., Sathan and Kishni, existing under the Bhars but on their extirpation by the Bhale Sultans, Nihal Khan, a member of the latter race, amalgamated the parganas and transferred the headquarters to Jagdispur,

named after himself Nihalgarh, and driving out the who were in possession of Kishni. The pargana has then borne the name of Jagdispur. Of remains of antiquity there

building a fort there,

Mandrik

Chhattris,

since are the ruins of three forts one at Nihalgarh, built in the time of the kings, and two others at Kishni and Sdthan, which are attributed to the Bhars.

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JAGD ISPXJR Pargana

JAGDrspuE Tahsil Musa'firkhana District SxJLTANPUE. Jagdispur, Chak Jangla, NiJidlgarli. The three names here given are now used synonymously; but Jagdispur is the original village, Chak Jangla is one of its component hamlets, and Nihalgarh a fort erected in Chak Jangla by Nihal Khan, a Bhale Sultan chief, in the year 1715. Nihdlgarh was besieged and taken in 1750 by Mirza Latif Beg, tahsildar, who took up his residence in it, and transferred to it the headquarters of the old Kishni and Sdthanpur pargana. small town as usual sprang up beneath it, which, though itself of little importance, has thrown into the shade the older village of Jagdispur. It is no longer the seat of a revenue oflScial, and the only public buildings in it are a school and a police station. Of its 562 houses there is one only of masonry, which belongs to the principal inhabitant, B^lmukand, a wealthy mahajan, and proprietor also of a small estate acquired very recently by purchase and mortgage. small bazar attracts the custom of the immediate neighbour-

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hood. Population 2,593.

JAHXNGIRABAD —Pargana

Latitude 26°27'

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longitude 81»40'.

—Tahsil Biswan—District

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Sita29 miles east from Sitapur, and 8 miTes east from Biswan, on the high road to Bahraich. No other road passes through or near it. It lies on the right bank of the Kewani river, which is navigable, though in some parts in the dry season it has only a few inches of The population numbers 2,640, who are of all castes, the Musalwater. mans being principally Julahas, or weavers of the coarse country cloth. There are no masonry houses in it, the mud-built ones are 448. There is one mosque only. In the Government school 35 boys are taught the ordinary elements of instruction. PUE.

—Jahangirabad

is

Twice a week a good bazar to Rs. 31,000.

grandfather

is

held, at

which the

sales usually

The present proprietor is the Mahmudabad

first

acquired

it

by mortgage, 13

it is

amounted

taluqdar,

whose

alleged, seventy years ago,