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 IKA 87 of Kapurthala's school at Ikauna, there are in the pargana the following Government village schools: Gangwal Lachhmanpar bazar Katra District roads from Bahraich to Balrámpur, and from Bhinga to Piágpur, traverse the pargana, both passing through Ikauna itself, the main traffic following eastward. The population is as shown in the following table :- Boys. . 33 25 16 Hindua Brabmans 494 -Non-agricultural 28,885 Chhattis ead 7) 9) . 19 19 44 17 » Others, Vaishyas Total 75,800 Ahírs Pasis Muhanita- Agricultural 1,645 Chamács dans Non-agricultural 1,976 Kurmis Kahúrs Total 3,621 Koris Muráos Total popula- Agriculteral 50,5604 Others tion. Non-agricultural 28,861 Musalmans Miscellaneous, Males 41,813 Females 38,608 Total 13,98G or the Brabmans--- 1,505 1,512 81 per cent. are Sarvaria, 9,740 8 » Sangaldipi. 4,961| 7 » Kangujia. 6,030 4 7,676 2,931 Of the Rajputs- 6,173 2.772 35 per cent. are Bais. 18,776 20, Janwar. 1,91815 91 . Chauhan. 1,708 8 71 $) 22 Others, 19 19 79,421 .4 ... 15 » Kallians. >> Total 79,421 Number of souls per square mile. 306 The Janwárs are mostly members of the great Ikauna family, and the Kalhans are probably of the same stock as the Chhedwára taluqdars. The Bais are a miscellaneous lot, who have probably as much or as little right to the tribal cognomen as most of their brethren. History.--The early history of the pargana is intimately connected with the rise of Buddhism, and there are in the neighbourhood of Sahet Mahet many Buddhist remains of great interest. The village of Tandwa, nine miles west of Sahet Mabet, is identified by General Cunningham as the Tu-wei of Fa Hian and Hwen Thsang, where Kasyana Buddha was born and lies buried; while a statue of the mother of Sakya Buddha is worship- ped now in the village as Síta. The place, like all these ancient remains in this district (see Charda), is said to have belonged to Rája Sohildeo of Asokh- pur, who was the chief opponent of Sayyad Sálár Masaúd. It is not till the reign of Firoz Shah Tughlaq that we get any further glimpses into the history of the pargana. Up to that period this part of the country is said to have been under the sway of a tribe of the carpenter caste, who, after holding for two hundred years, took to a lawless way of living, committing dacoity on their neighbours and on one another. Firoz Shah, soon after accession, in 1350 A.D., passed by way of Gorakhpur and Khurasa (Kho- rassur in Gonda) to the conquest of Bengal, and it was doubtless then, or at the later date, when he visited Bahraich itself in the year 1374 A.D., that Risáldár Bariár Sáh, Janwar, the first lord of Ikauna, obtained his grant, on condition of putting down these marauders and keeping the