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abandonding Kanchanpui-

This entirely, since it was included in Naip41. Sfirajbans family consists of about twenty gentlemen of very considerable ability and culture, good sportsmen, fair landlords, and all of active and energetic habits. They regret the loss of the Khairigarh forests, which in former times were common property, and which have now been appropriated by Government.

The owners of Khairigarh, however, seem to have exercised no exclusive rights over this forest ; the different r&jas of the neighbourhood constructed their khedds and captured elephants without asking the permission of the Khairigarh

them any share of the

spoil.

rajas, and without giving The Oudh Government used also to lease

the forest produce, and there are still extant many grants of concessions to cut wood here issued by the native rulers, so that the English Government has only taken what belonged to its predecessors.

KHAIRIGARH Kheri.

Pargana Khairigarh— Ta^iZ

—A town from which a pargana derives

Nighasan

—District

name, situated on the left side of the Suheli river, having groves to the north and east. It is distant 110 miles north of Lucknow, and lies in latitude 28° 26', longitude its

80° 41'. Teiffenthaler, describing to

be a

fortified place,

its condition about eighty years ago, states it worthy of note as well on account of its excellent

construction as of its size, being four or five miles in circuit. The defences are built of huge blocks of stone below, and above of bricks of unusual size, but it now lies waste and infested with tigers and other wild beasts. It was built by Ala-ud-din Tughlaq Shah on a site well chosen to check the mountaineers who might plunder Oudh from Kumaun or Naipal. The town is two miles north-east of the great fort, the intervening space being overgrown with trees and grassy jungle, the lair of beasts of prey. Khairigarh. belongs to Raja Indra Bikram Sah. The population

amounts

to 1,135.

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KHAJURAHRA* Dor.

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Pargana Bangar

— Khajurahra (population

— Tahiil

HarDoi

—District

Har-

3,305, chiefly Chamars).

The central village of the Khajurahra taluqa of Thdkur Lalta Bakhsh Chamar Gaur, 6 miles south from Hardoi, in pargana Bangar, tahsil and district Hardoi,

536

A petty market hamlet of Sathri.

is

mud

houses.

held on Mondays and Thursdays in the adjacent

Khajurahra has been held by the Chamar Gaurs ever since their ancestor Ganga Singh, surnamed K4na (one-eyed), drove out the Thatheras, See

Bawan

(pargana).

KHANDANSA

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Pargana Tahsil BfKAPUR District Fyzabad. This pargana lies along the north bank of the. Gumti, bordered by Bara Banki It contains 128 villages covering 116 square miles, district on the west. Its population is 70,905, being at the rate of of which 65 are cultivated. 611 to the square mile. Of these 66,698 are Hindus, and only 4,207, or '

By Mr.

A. H. Harington, C.S., Assistant Commiasioner,

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