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barely three per cent., Musalmans. The history of the formation of this pargana is complicated, and the official accoimt which follows is detailed. It will appear that Khandansa proper was in Eudauli up to annexation; it was then included as a separate pargana in Bara Banki, and in 1860 it was transferred to Fyzabad, the 26 villages of pargana Jagdispur, district Sultanpur, which lay north of the river Gumti, being added to it, and the whole called Khanddnsa.

Tradition says that about 600 years ago one Khande, a Bhar, while on a pilgrimage to Ajodhya with his brothers, happened to come to the neighbourhood of the present Khandansa, and finding it fertile and uninhabited took possession of it and founded four villages Khanddnsa, Urwah, Bhakauli, and Dehli Girdhar, calling them after his own and his brothers' names, Khande, Ori, Bhikhu, Girdhar. In the reign of Pirthi Rde, or R^e Pithaura, R^ja of Hastindpur or Delhi, this tract was entered in official records as Khandansa, and was divided into the four tappas named after This continued until the time of the four villages above referred to. Akbar, when Todar Mai abolished the " tappabandi " arrangement and Thenceforward it was called pargana constituted Khandansa a pargana. Khandansa, ilaqa Rudauli, until the introduction of British rule in February, 1856 A.D. Between that date and the out-break of the mutiny no administrative arrangements were completed, but on the restoration of tranquillity in 1858 A.D. a settlement was made, and Khandansa continued to be a separate pargana, consisting of 113 villages, with a revenue of Rs. 32,695, and was included in the Bara Banki district.

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At annexation. Captain Orr, who had previously held a the Oudh Government, and been stationed at

mand under

military comSultanpur, was

appointed deputy commissioner of the district of that name, and directed make a summary settlement of it. Before pargana boundaries had been determined, an order was issued that the Gumti should form the boundary -between the Sultanpur and Fyzabad districts, all the lands to the north of the river being included in the latter. Accordingly 26 villages, forming three muhals, and paying a revenue of Rs. 6,440, were (together with 162 villages of pargana Isauli, with a revenue of Rs. 5,690-7-3, and all the villages of Sultanpur Baraunsa on the north of the Gumti) thrown into the Bharthapur tahsil in the Fyzabad district. to

At the adjustment of pargana boundaries about I860, 112 out of the 113 villages of pargana Khanddnsa, with a revenue of Rs. 32,515, together with nine villages of parganas Rudauli and Muhammadpur in tahsil Rudauli paying Rs. 4,310, were taken out of the Bara Banki district, and with the 26 above referred to formed into a new pargana, Jagdispur, which thus consisted of 147 villages (ultimately demarcated as 100) assessed at Es. 43,265. An interchange of a few villageswith adjacent parganas subsequently took place, which resulted in leaving Khandansa with 153 villages (demarcated as 118) and a revenue of Rs. 46,454. This lasted till the re-constitution of districts in 1869 A.D., when by certain changes it was made to consist of 128 (demarcated) villages with a revenue of Rs. 606^07. The pargana which had hitherto been in the Bharthapur tahsil, was now included in the newly formed one of Bfkapur.