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Sidney and wrestlers from the Punjab, the missionary, the maulvi and Besides this, which is known as the all may be seen here. Khairatad mela, there is in the Dasahra a large gathering, the Ramlila, The annual value of the bazar attend. a"t which perhaps 15,000 souls sales, including those of the January fair, Rs. 1,55,654, is put down at Es. 3,40,769. There are no local manufactures.

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Khairabad is 47 miles north-west of Lucknow, on the metalled road to Shahjahanpur, and lies in 27° 32' north and 80° 48.' east.

The Pasi Khaira who founded the town was a subject of the Ahban Bhim Sen, who owned the surrounding country in those days. He was killed by Basdeo, a Kayath, whose father he had slain.

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KHAIRIGARH

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Pargana Tahdl Nighasan District Kheei. This pargana lies between the Mohan river on the north, and the Suheli or Sarju on the south ; on the east it is bounded by the Kauri^la, and on the west by the kingdom of Naipal. It is the largest pargana in the district, being forty-seven miles from east to west, and about twelve miles from north to south its area is 425 square miles, but more than half of this, viz., 263 square miles, is the property of Government, being covered with State forests. The general aspect of the country is much the same as in Kukra Mailani, the highlands covered with dense sal forest, and the hollows being either swamps or, when more elevated, rice-fields. The general slope is from the north-west corner, where the bluffs above the Mohan are 600 feet above the sea (the greatest plain elevation in Oudh), down to the junction of the Suheli and Kauriala, where the level is not more than 440 feet.

Besides the three abovenamed rivers on its borders, there is the Jaurawhich rises in a little tank about a mile south of the Mohdn, and is probably created by filtration from that stream. It takes a tortuous course of about 60 miles before effecting a junction with the Suheli. Its waters are sluggish, sometimes of great depth, and its quicksands render it impossible to cross it with elephants, even where not more than five yards broad. The stream is nearly everywhere overhung by the s&l forest, and is often black with the decaying leaves. It is nowhere bridged. The Kauriala and Mohan are the subjects of separate articles. ha,

The Suheli

is really the old channel of the Sarju, which once ran Khairigarh fort; the waters which now take this course belong to two former afiluents of the Sarju, which thread their way in a narrow current through the high grass and brushwood, covering what was formerly the channel of the great river. The banks of the Mohan are precipitous, and their height renders it impossible to use the water for irrigation. The ancient bank of the Chauka is also about thirty feet above the level of the Suheli. In fact the whole pargana consists of a lofty plateau between three rivers with a series of depressions in the middle, through which flows the Jauraha, and a large sunken plain at the eastern extremity. Drainage is everywhere good ; there is nothing which can be called a lake, and but a very few small morasses, which might all be drained, being far above the level of the rivers.

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