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This pargana was formerly ^held by the Biiars. party of Sayyad Masalid's force met here with Xgha, an attendant of Taj -ud-din of Bachhrdwan ; the combined parties attacked the fort held by the Bhar chief; their forces were insufficient they were repulsed, and Agha left dead on the field. The Bhars continued to hold this place, just in the centre of Oudh and far from any seat of civilization, four hundred years longer, till 820 A.H., when they were attacked and annihilated by Ibrdhim Sharqi of Jaunpur, who left a follower of his own, Sayyad Jalal-ud-di'n, in Hardoi, granting him the property. His descendants still survive in the town. The Kanhpurias acquired a part of this pargana, as follows Babu Btiz Bahadur having quarrelled with his brother Raja Amhn Singh of Chandapur took up his residence in Hanswaria of pargana Simrauta, next to Hardoi. By the connivance of the chakladar he got possession of eight villages in the pargana which he called taluqa Atehra his son Bdbu, Raghunath afterwards succeeded by adoption to Chandapur estate, to which this one was now permanently united. This happened about eighty years ago. Four villages belonging to Amethias were also included in taluqa Thulendi the year after annexation, 1857. There is nothing else worthy of relation. The name of the town is said to be derived from Raja Hardeo, the Bhar chief who built it.



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Tahsil Digbijaiganj District Rae Baeetown stands on the side of the road from Digbijaiganj to Bachhrawdn, and lies 12 miles north of the sadr station Rae Bareli and 4 miles east of the town of Thulendi. It was founded by Hardeo, a This Bhar, and named after him, and is now constituted a pargana. must have been more than 866 years ago, for it contains the tomb of Agha Shahid of Masaiid's army, but the exact date cannot be ascertained. A mud-built fort was built here by Ibrahim of Jaunpur which has fallen into ruins. Sayyad Jalal-ud-din, a follower of the king, took The total population amounts to 1,590, of which up his residence here. 94 are Sayyads of the Shia sect, 108 Brahmans, and 103 Kayaths, who Li.

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mostly belong to the Shaivi creed the rest, 1,285, consist of 89 Muhammadans and 1,196 Hindus, all of the lower castes. Here are one brickbuilt and 259 mud-built houses, two masonry mosques, one other religious building called an idgdh, and one shiwala.

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Pargana Tahsil Sitapue District Sitapue. Pargana Harcontains an area of 66 square miles, of which 43 are cultivated its greatest length and breadth being 12 miles and 9 miles It is bounded on the north by district Kheri, on the respectively. east by pargana Laharpur, on the south by pargana Khairabad, and on the west by pargana Sitapur, from which it is separated by the Sarayan

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