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son Narohtam Das appears from the muniments to have had three villages, Harbansnagar, now Badarqa Harbans, which had been founded on the 500 bighas, Rawal, and Jagjiwanpur, in 1077 A.H., (1667), Curious to relate, none of R^ja Harbans' descendants had the good fortune to attract Court favours.

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Pargana Harha— Ta/iSi? Unao District Unao. Was formerly the headquarters of one of the tahsils of Unao, and is distant about eight miles south-east from the sadr station. The road between Unao and Rae Bareli districts passes about two miles to the north. It is watered by the Gurdhoi flowing through, and the Ganges at a distance of about two miles south of it. No large town is near. It dates its foundation from 414 Hijri in the time <3f Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni. Prior to this there was on the same spot a village called Shekhapur in the possession of the Ahir tribe. To the west the village Indrapur, about one mile and a half distant, belonging to the Lodhas. The zamindars of these villages fell out and the Indrapur zamindars were victorious. Shekhapur fell into their hands, and they made great improvements, had all the jungle cut away,

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on a plain without any jungle in any of the neighbouring

villages.

The appearance

of the village is very picturesque, climate healthy, water for the most part sweet, though there are some brackish wells. Mdn Singh, an ancestor of Shiuraj Singh, the present qantingo, was a very respectable officer and a great jagir holder in the reign of Emperor Alamgir. Rde Dhan Singh, Rae Baij N^th, and Rae Shambhu Nath were officers of high note appointed by the Lucknow Government in the times of Asif-

ud-daula and Sa^dat Ali Khan.

These gentlemen were all inhabitants of this place and belonged to the Kayath caste. There is one monument of Maqbul-i-alam, the general 'of Mahmud of Ghazni, and a fort erected by him. There is now a school numbering 65 pupils. There was a thana and tahsil in the king's time, and also two bazars weekly. The annual sales amount to Rs. 950, Population.

Hindua Musalnians

^;9««] Total 6.446,

There are 1,896 mud-built and three masonry houses, twenty temples and six mosques, fifteen temples or shiw£las, two to Debi, fourteen to Mah^deo, one to Ganesh, and one to Vishnu, a thdkurdwiira as it is generally called.

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Pafgaria Moha'N AvnXs— Tahsil Moha'n District Unao. a bazdr situated at the junction of the two roads from Mianganj and Raslilabad to Moh^n, and about four miles from the latter place. It was founded by Hasan Raza Khan, Naib of Asif-ud-daula, in the village of Mahadeopur Balamau, which that monarch granted to him on rent-free It is a place of some small trade, but chiefly samples are brought tenure. from dealers to test. It consists of one wide street lined with trees and

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