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The fine bridge over the Nagwa, a river which crosses the road at about twelve miles from Lucknow, was built by Maharaja Tikait Rae, finance minister of ^sif-ud-daula; then came Tikaitganj, built by the same minister. It now lies in ruins. The bridge over the ravine leading into Maharajganj and the ganj itself were built by Maharaja Bal Kishan, and the ganj that succeeds by Maharaja Newal Rae, Naib of Safdar Jang, the Nawab Wazir. Many other tombs or mosques adorned the roadside, but are fast falling a bazar.

into ruins.

The country on either side is bare of trees, and the pargana generally not well wooded, except immediately round Kakori. This last is an important town, and with the main line of the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway running within a mile of it will probably very much increase in prosperity. The only bazar of the pargana is held here, and the annual sale of goods in it is said to amount to Rs. 32,500. The town was of old a wealthy Musalman settlement, and the abode of many learned and well-known Musalmans and faqirs, and from which, as the headquarters Musalman town, the pargana was administered. This pargana has in all sixty-five townships, and sixty-five separate muhals. The average area of each township is five hundred and ninety-six acres. The history of the pargana is hard to trace. It was probably at first inhabited by the Bhars. Kakorgarh, in the midst of the present town of Kakori, is said to have been an old Bhar fort. The name is Bhar. In Nigohan Sissaindi, at the eastern end of the district, is another old site of a Bhar village, called the Kdkoha Dih. The Bhars were probably driven out by the Rajputs, for it was one of the parganas that was included in the Baiswara kingdom and the Bais Raja S^than, either with a view to farther conquest, or to keep secure this the latest of his possessions, fixed upon Kakorgarh as his fort and headquarters. The history of his fall is rateresting, though local, and bears a prominent part in the annals of the town. This part of the province was then under the Jaunpur dynasty, to which Government it had long belonged, and the raja carrying his depredations into the heart of Lucknow, a force was sent against him from Jaunpur, it is said, in the time of Muhammad, 844 Hijri (1440 A.D.), to which he succumbed, falling himself in the fight. From this time the Rajputs have disappeared from the pargana. Scattered clans hold some fifteen Kakori itself fell into the hands of the leaders of the conquering villages. expedition, and thirty-three out of the sixty-four villages of the pargana are in the hands of Musalmans. The chief Musalman families are the QazizMas and Shekhs of Kakori. The tenure is entirely zamindari.

There is no trace of the first formation of Kakori into a pargana It has been known as such since the time of Akbar, and probably comprised the extent of territory ruled over by the Bhar raja of K&orgarh. In the days of the Nawabi it was generally held as a muhal by itself, but from 1249 F. (A.D. 1843) it was included in the chakla of Sandlla in Hardoi.

KXkORI Town—Pargana KXkoei— TaMZ Lucknow—District now.

—The town of Kakori, the headquarters town of the pargana ofLuckthat

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