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 522 MUH It is on Gahooa, a small rent-free village, yielding four hundred rupees a year held by Bahadur Sing, the talookdar of Peepareea, who resides at Pursur, He had recourse to the usual mode of indiscriminate murder and plunder to reduce Ahmed Allee to terms. At the same time, he resumed the small village of Kombee, yielding three hundred rupees a year, held rent-free by Bhoder Singh, talookdar of Magdapoor, who resided in Kombee ; and, in consequence, he united his band of marauders to that of Bahadur Singh, and together they plundered and burnt to the ground some dozen villages, and laid waste the pargana of Peepareea, which had yielded to Government twenty-five thousand rupees a year, and contained the sites of one hundred and eight villages, of which, however, only twenty-five were occupied.”— Pages 74-79, Vol II., Sleeman's Tour in Oudh. MUHAMDI-Pargana MUHAMDI—Tahsil MUHAMDI—District KHERI— Lies on the road from Lakhimpur to Shahjahanpur, three miles west of the Gumti, in latitude 27°58' north, longitude 80°19' east. a level plain of fine soil, and has on every side groves and single trees of the best kind. There is an old brick-built fort, having two oblong court- yards. It is now in a decayed state. Within the town there is an injámbára, which after being repaired is occupied by the tahsil office. The main part of the fort was built in the beginning of the reign of Aurangzeb by the great-grandson of Nawab Sadr Jahản; and the outer works and the imámbára were built in the time of Sandat Khan, Gover- nor of Oudh, by the ancestor of Raja Musharraf Ali Khan. Hakim Mehndi Ali Kban, during his chakladarship of the Muhamdi district, which lasted from A. D. 1799 to 1820, lived here. He made a garden to the west of the town, and he built a saráe, a mosque, and a ganj within the town. He called the garden Mehndi Bagh and the ganj Saádatganj. after the name of Saádat Ali Khan, the then Governor of Oudh. The saráe could accommodate at one time about 200 travellers of ordinary des- cription; and the ganj has 60 shops. Saádat Ali Khan was fond of this place, and used to reside here for many months every year. In A.D. 1815, he made a garden about a mile to the east of the town on a fine open place of good soil, and planted an avenue all the way. The trees are now in perfection, but the garden has been neglected, and the bungalow in the centre in which he resided is entirely in ruins. He kept here a large establishment of men and cattle. Within this garden Government has built a bungalow for European travellers. There is a tank to the west of the town round which flights of brick-built stairs were made in A.D. 1863 by subscription. The town of Mubardi was established by Sayyad Muqtadi, and im-: proved and enlarged by Ali Akbar Khan, ancestor of Rája Musharraf Ali Khan. It has been Government property since A. D. 1784, and declared as such under a judicial decree dated 2nd September, 1868. For a detailed historical account see district article Kheri, historical chapter. Muhamdi is not remarkable for any fair at which trade is carried on. It has a daily market, and a special market twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays in which articles of country consumption are sold. The annual sales of European and native cotton fabrics in Muhamdi are