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 122 KHA 77 1 5) ditto, 92 The melas or fairs are as follows: Government mela held in January (vide town Klairabad.) Rámlila, in September October, attended by 15,000 souls. Dad Kindau, in August, attended by 2,000 Dewali, in October, ditto 3,000 Kátki, for bathing 3,000 Chari, in April, a women's festival, in honour of Debi. Besides which the two íds and the muharram are celebrated with con- siderablc éclat, and there is a Musalman gathering in June at the shrinc of Vásuf Khan, who slew an Abban king, as described under the heading of town Khairabad, to which the reader is referred for particulars con- cerning the foundation of the city. At these fairs commodities of all sorts are sold. A pretty brisk trade in grain is carried on with Lucknow, but, with the exception of the cloth made in Khairabad, there are no manufactures, nor are there any mines or quarries. The principal public buildings in the pargana are the court houses, barracks, hospitals, &c., in the civil lines and cantonments of Sita- pur. The camping grounds for troops are three, one at Sarayyan on the Biswán road, one at Thompsonganj, and one at Jalálpur on the road to Lucknow. In Khairabad are two saráes, one built by the philanthropic Ha- kim Mehndi, who built the bridge at Sitapur, and thie bridge and sarke at Maholi; the other built by Chaudhri Rám Naráin Káyath, taluqdar of Mubárakpur, who also bridged the Gon river at Dumoráli; and there is a third sarbe built by Government. The proportion of cultivated land to each head of the agricultural popu- lation is 19 acres, and of culturable land 2 acres. This corresponds almost exactly with the proportion obtaining in pargana Sitapur. The rents are almost entirely paid in kind. The incidence of the revised jama is as follows:- Rs, .-P. On cultivated land 9 per acre. On culturable 8 99 1 8 1 16 13 23 On total area 01 33 The history of the pargana is in part necessarily told under the history of the town Khairabad, and need not be given here. It was Todar Mal who constituted the pargana out of 10 tappas, one of which in 1131 Fasli was taken out of it. In Unasia, four miles south of Khairabad, are the re- mains of Rája Bhín Sen's fort, in the shape of an extensivc díh or mound (vide Pímagar), with a wide fosse extending like a horse-shoe round three sides of it. Besides this díh there are 20 others in the pargana, and these are all the remains of antiquity to be met with. The local couplet about Bhím Sen of Unasia's death runs thus:- Assi tál unisi kua tihka ráo piámá mua. There were 80 tanks and 79 wells, yet the lord of them died of thirst, The Baises and Káyaths are said to have succceded the Pasis in the government of this pargana. There was one Gobind Singh Káyath, who formed an alliance with the Bachhils of Nímkhár, and joined by the Bais