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Bazars. There are ten bazars in the pargana, eight of which are always open, the others only on market days. Amaniganj, founded by Nawab Asif-ud-daula, who when a boy was called Mirza Amdni; principal market day Thursday. Rae Patti, on Wednesday and Saturday. P6ra Bhikhi, Sursampur, Baqarganj, Pura Sidhari, Nawan, Angrauli. The others are of no importance no details of the sales are given.

There are no indigo factories in the pargana, and the soil is less suited than that of HaWeli Oudh. Sugarcane is grown bj' all castes, except the Bhale Sultans in Deogaon. About 2,500 local bighas are occupied by this crop. These produce 25,000 local maunds of raw sugar Cgur^, which is sent to Rudauli, Fyzabad, and Sultanpur. Fine sugar (chini) is not made in the pargana. Cotton is grown to a very limited extent, and yields only 5 or 6 seers to a local bigha. Opium is little cultivated, about 400 bighas only, which yield about 8 seers a local bigha, are devoted to it, the cultivators being Muraos and Brahmans. There are no four-bullock carts in the pargana. Landowners have about 75 two-buUock ones, and these are employed for agricultural purposes only. Weavers are very few in number, and the total number of looms does not exceed one hundred. Country cloths only, such as garha, adhotar, are made, and

for the crop



these are taken for sale to neighbouring bazars.

The remains of Bhar

forts are to be found at Sirsend, Bakhauli, and This pargana was the haunt formerly of Jagannath chaprasi, described as follows by Sleeman

Jarajryan.

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"Jugurnath chuprasee, a Bhala Soltan Rajpoot. This is one of the most formidable of the leaders of banditti in this and the adjoining district of Jugdeespore. He and his elder brother Surubdowun Sing were chuprasees on the establishment of Captain Paton when he was the First Assistant at Lucknow, and had charge of the post-ofEce, in addition to his other duties. A post-ofBce runner was one night robbed on the road, and Jugurnath was sent out to inquire into the circumstances. The amil of the district gave him a large bribe to misrepresent the case to his master and as he refused to share this bribe with his fellow-servants, the}' made known his manifold transgressions to Captain Paton, who forthwith dismissed him.

" Surubdowun Sing was soon after dismissed for some other offence, and they both retired to their estate of Oskamow, in the Jugdeespore district.

"This estate comprised fifteen villages. They obtained the leases of these by degrees, through the influence which their position at the Residency gave them. As soon as they got the lease of a village they proceeded to turn out all the old proprietors and cultivators, in order the better to secure possession in perpetuity and those among them of the military class fought to the death to retain or recover possession of their To defend what they had iniquitously acquired, Jugurnath and his rights. brothers collected together bands of the most desperate ruffians in the country and located them in the several villages, so as to be able to concentrate and support each other at a concerted signal, The ousted proprietors villages



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