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 458 MAN 400 600 46 50 57 40 66 20 3 There are seven village schools in the pargana. Their names are as follows Khota 32 pupils. Dhuswa 47 pupils. Bhitaura Biddianagar Machhligaon .. Dankarpur Beripur 35 There is no registry, tahsil, or police office. History.—At a time of which the exact date is uncertain, this ilaqa was in the possession of Thárus, but the Bhars succeeded in displacing them, and a chief of the latter, called Makka, cut the jungle which then covered a great part of the pargana, and founded the village of Manika- pur calling it after himself. At this place he fixed his headquarters. Makka Bhar and his descendants ruled here for six generations. They were in turn subdued by Newal Sáh, a Chandrabansi or Bandhalgoti Chhattri (see pargana Nawabganj, district Gonda), who reigned at Mak- sara, a village of this pargana. This Chhattri clan ruled at Manikapur for 12 generations, and the last of the line was Partáb Singh, who left no issue at his death. His wife became a suttee with her busband, and her suttee chabútra stands in mauza Bhitaura in this pargana. Ráni Bhágmáni, the mother of Partáb Singh, then adopted Azmat Singh, a son of Datt Singh, the Bisen Rája of Gonda, who was her sister's husband, Thus the Manikapur ráj was acquired by the Bisen family. Five rájas have passed since. Řáni Šaltanat Kunwar, the widow of Rája Pirthípál, is the present head of the family. The estate in her possession contains 159 villages, and gives a land revenue of 28,547-14-0. The Biddiánagar estates, consisting of 30 villages, and the Garhi estate of as many villages, have passed to Rája Kishandatt Rám of Singha Chanda, and nine villages are in the possession of the heirs of Mahúrája Man Singh, The only fair in the pargana is that held in honour of Karohan Náth Mahadeo at Karohan village on the day of the Shuiráttri. MANIKAPUR-Pargana MANIKAPUR--Tahsil UTRAULA-District GON- DA.- A little village of 547 inhabitants, which gives its name to the pargana, It was founded by Makka Bhar, who had displaced the Thárus from this part of the country. The site was formerly covered with a dense jungle. It is 20 miles from Gonda, 58 from Bahramghat, and 52 south of the hills. The Manwar stream flows to the north of the village. Water is met with at 164 feet. The only fair is held on the Kartiki Púranmáshi for bathing in the Man war. There is a Thákurdwara, but no place of Moslem worship. Mahisa is the staple product of the place. MÁNIKPUR Pargana—Tahsil KUNDA— District PARTABGARH.---This, small but celebrated pargana lies along the bank of the Ganges, between Bihár and Salon. It was formerly much larger, but the Kanhpurias and the Bisens seizing some of the villages managed, for greater security, to include them in their parganas. Its area only 36 square miles, or 22,796 acres, of which 10,300 are cultivated, and 8,152 barren. The population