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 КНЕУ - КНІ 273 names, many generations in the pargava ; they possess eleven villages and numer- ous small rent-free holdings. There were four qánúngos in Kheri-all of one family, but one was originally of Barhai or carpenter caste, hav- ing been adopted by the head of the family nine generations ago. One branch was deprived of their rent-free tenures for false evidence in a court of law when the succession to the Mahewa estate was disputed. KHERI -Pargana KHERI—Tahsil LAKBIMPUR--District KHERI.—A large town from which tlie pargana and the district of Kheri derive their Latitude 27°54', longitude 80°51. There are 14 Hindu temples, 12 mosques, and three imámbáras. Kheri has a daily market in which articles of country consumption are sold. The Rámlíla festival is celebrated in the month of September; abont 8,000 persons assemble. There are 7+ masonry houses, more than one-half of the whole number in the district ; there are also 58 masonry wells. Altogether it is the only place in the diſtrict bearing the appearance of a town. It is difficult to see what caused its prosperity in former times. It is not the residence of any large land- owner, Thoguh in former times the Sayyads of Sayyadwára, one of its muhallas, were wealthy and influential. The tomb of Sayyad Khurd, who died in 971 H. or 1563 A.D., is com- posed of huge kankar blocks and is worth seeing. The Emperor Alamgir built a mosque here which is yet unimpaired. The population, according to settlement papers, amounts to 5,037, of which 2,002 are Hindus and 3,035 Muhammadans, KHIRON Pargana-Tahsil LALGANJ—District RAE BARELI,— This like other neighbouring Parganas was in the possession of the Bhars, and the existence of the tomb of Fateh Shahíd leads to the supposition that it was invaded by Sálár Masaúd. A period of 737 years has clapsed since Rája Abhai Chand, of the Bais clan, drove away the Bhars and brought the pargaba into his dominions. Rája Satna, cighth from Abhai Chand, found- ed a village and called it after his own name Sátanpur. He built a fort there, calling the whole pargana Sátanpur, from the principal town. This arrangement remained till the time of Nawab Asif-ud-daula when Rája Niwaz Singh's brother, the tahsildar of the pargana, built a fort in Khíron, and fixed upon it as the seat of the tahsil. The pargana was then and since called Khíron. The pargana comprises 123 villages; its area is 102 square miles; its breadth from east to west is nine miles, and length from north to south twelve. It is bounded on the east by parganas Dalamau and Rae Bareli; on the west by Parganas Panhan, Bhagwantnagar, Bihár, and Patan, of Unao; on the south by pargana Sareni; and on the north by Maurånwán of the Unao district. There are two villages in this pargana, one Saimbansi and the other Naihesta, which are said to have been founded by Khem Karan and Karan Ráe, sons of Harhar Deo respectively. The descendants of Khem Karan, therefore, are called Bais Saimbansi, and of Karan Ráe Bais Nai- besta. Shiupal Kunwar, widow of Jagan Náth Bakhsh, of Simri, taluqdar, belongs to this latter family.