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 MAH 403 > 30 52 50 . 19. 25 Fyzabad to Gonda. All the traffic of this pargana is carried on by these roads, Schools have been established at the following villages :- Kaherba 65 pupils. Chaubepur Payágpur Ráwpur 30 The post, police, and registry offices are all at Wazirganj. History.—(See Nawabganj pargana, district Gonda.) A few facts may however be added. At the time Sayyad Sálár fell in battle at Bahraich, Hatila, lieutenant of his, made an attack on Asokpur, where there was a police post of Subel Deo, and was killed. His shrine still stands there. The Chhattri ascendancy in this pargana dates from the time of the massacre of the Doms by Ráe Jagat Singh, Káyath, Súbahdar. Salaj Singh, Kalhans, an officer of the Ráe's army, conquered the fort of Dumrú Náth, and was granted by the Ráe this part of the country. The Kalhans ruled for seven generations, till in the 8th Achal Naráin Singh came to the throne, and gave the country under his sway the name of Khurása. Rája Achal Naráin Singh granted this iláqa of Bondia Gháta to Sahang Ráe and Malang Ráo, Gorha Bisens, for their bravery in conquering the fort of, and arresting Mahábal Singh, the Rája of Ikauna. Since then the Gorha Bisens have got a footing in the country. Towards the end of the 15th century Achal Naráin Singh and his family were destroyed by the Gogra. (See district article, Gonda; also “Carnegy's Races of Oudh.") There are still some traces of the former inundation of the Gogra in this part in the shape of jhils. For some time the country remained without a head, till Sarabjít Singh, a deputy of Achal Naráin, seated on the gaddi one Partáb Singh of the Gorakhpur family and a relative of his. The headquarters then lay at Kobáui, a village in pargana Digsar, but Rája Mán Singh removed them to Gonda. Pargana families.-Rája Randhir Singh of Paraspur is descended from Mahraj Singh (the posthumous son of Achal Naráin Singh of Khurása), who was born at his maternal grandfather's house. He holds twenty-seven villages, and pays an annual jama of Rs. 29,064-9-9. Thakuráin Iklás Kunwar of Paska also belongs to the same family ; her property consists of twenty villages, and gives Rs. 16,944. Bhayya Harratan Singh of Manjhigdon.—This taluqdar is descended from Sahang Ráe, or Malang Ráe who was granted the iláqa of Bodia Gháta by Achal Naráin. Harratan Singh behaved well during the mutiny, and was granted the estate of Aunrádih in tahsil Utraula as a reward. He now holds twenty-one villages, and pays an annual revenue of Rs, 4,418. Antiquities.-Of the antiquities of the pargana the following may be mentioned. The garden and apartment at Wazirganj, was built by Nawab Shujá-ud-daula, the remnants of the fort of Suhel Deo, in the shape of a mound by the side of the Fyzabad-Gonda road, and the dih in mauza Dumrú