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 MAC-MAG 399 through 11 generations their descent from Bíram. They are the only Kachhwába Chhattris in this district, and are of the Rajwár subdivision of that tribe ; the head of the Rajwars being the Mahárájă of Jaipur. The Bais zamindars are members of the Bais colony settled in the adjoining pargana of Pírnagar. The Janwars of Baniámau claim a much more ancient date for the acqui- sition of their estate than do their fellow-clansmen in this district; in fact, their family-tree extends back for 33 generations and 1149 years. But no particulars of their history are known, save that they came from Gujarát. Debi Singh is the present head of the family. The story about the Káyath succeeding the Ahbans above related is very similar to that told respecting Khairabad (q. v.); and as it has been given by a Káyath it must be accepted cum grano salis. MACHHREHTA Town* -Pargana MACHEREHTA— Tahsil MISRIKH-Dis- trict SITAPUR.—Machbrehta (27° 25' north, and 80° 41'east) is about sixteen miles sonth of Sitapur, lying on the good unmetalled road which runs from Khairabad to Nímkhár on the Gumti. It was founded at the time the Pargana was demarcated by Akbar's revenue officials, 325 years ago, and is Called after Muchhandar Náth, a holy man, who abode here in those days; the place beirg known as the Tap-bhumni, or land of the hermits. The population is 4,578, of whom 2,808 are Hindus. There are no old ruins or places of historical interest in it. It does not possess a single masonry house ; the mud houses are 738, the Hindu temples are 9 in number ; one of them being on the brink of a large excavated tank called “ Hardwár Tirath," which is holy in the eyes of the people, and which is guarded by anancient Bairagi. Here, in the month of Phágun, congregate two or three thousand devotees, who go down into the lake to wash off their sins. In a neigh- bouring grove of pakaria trees the Ramlila is celebrated in Kuár. The mosques are 4 in number, besides which there is an imámbára built by a dancing girl in modern times. There is an old saráe, the remains of a Government fort, a school house, and a post-office. There is a daily bazar. The only manufactures are coarse cloth and sugar. There is no water or rail communication from anywhere, and the only road to it besides the one abovementioned is from Misrikl, which is six miles westwards. MAGDAPUR Parganat-Tahsil MUHAMDI.—District KHERI.---The Mag- dapur pargana, traversed by the unmetalled road from Lakhimpur to Muhamdi, lies to the south of pargana Atwa Piparia, betweeu the rivers Kathna on the east and Gumti on the west. The right bank of the former river is bordered by low swampy ground, succeeded by a belt of sál forest, two or three miles wide, through which the surface gradually rises until, when cultivation is reached, the soil is high dry foam. In the middle of the pargana is a depression where water in the wells is found at a depth of only nine or ten feet; but as the Gumti is approached, the level rises again, and in the extreme south-west sand-hills have been formed. Generally the soil is of inferior fertility. † By Mr, T. R. Redfcro, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.
 * By Mr, Ferrar, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.