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 420 MAJ Population- Hitidus Musaluang 10+ 1,201 6 6 Total 1,207 . Mustafabad 2 3 4 re. 89 128 64 70 re MAJHAURA* Pargana--Tahril AKBARPUR-District FYZABAD.-It is affirmed that the majority of the lands at present included in the area of this pargana were formerly divided into Number of four tappas as marginally noted. No. Name villages. It is said that during the Bhar period there were two brothers of that race Asgawan named Bandhaupál and Rachhpál, who, it is believed, acknowledged and paid Sikandarpar tribute to the Emperors of Delhi. The Haweli former of these brothers ruled over-a territory which he named after himself pargana Bandhangarh. When the supremacy of the Bhars in these parts began to languish, some 500 years ago in the days-according to local belief- of Ala-ud-din Ghori, A.D. 1156, which must be nonsense), an offi- cer of the Delhi Court named Sayyad Manjhe was deputed to the charge of this part of the country. After completely suppressing the Bhars, and establishing his authority, he founded the town of Majhaura, to which he gave his own name, changing the name of the pargana to that also. This pargana, for some generations before our rule, was known to con- tain 351 villages, of which 125 were asli (original), and 226 dákhili (subur- ban). In the last summary settlement these villages were recorded as 303 in number, and under the present settlement and demarcation opera- tions they have been finally arranged as 164 villages. The area is 74 square miles, of which 43 are cultivated. The pargana is bounded on the north by pargana Amsin, on the south by Sultanpur and Aldemau of the Sultanpur district, on the east by parganas Akbarpur and Aldemau, and on the west by Pachhimrath of this district. It is mentioned in the Afn--Akbari as one of those included in Subah Allahabad, but which, with the rest of our southern parganas, was transferred to Subah Oudh. The pargana is intersected by the small unnavigable rivers Madha and Biswi, which having their rise to the westward beyond its limits, and run- ning eastwards unite at the village of Baizpur, which stands on the bor- ders of this pargana and Akbarpur. The river thus formed at this spot, called Dohte or place of confluence, where it is always fordable except in the rains, thenceforward takes the name of Tonsa or Tons, on which stands the station of Azamgarh--a river which is hallowed by associations in con- nection with Rámchandar; while of the spot Dohte we shall have more to note when treating of that shrine anon. Traces of the Bhar race, who have long been almost extinct in the par- gana, are still to be seen in the following villages where mounds and masonry debris are all that are left to mark their former strongholds—vis.,
 * By Mr P. Carnegy, Commissioner.