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 8 NAS-NAW sive of piece-goods, brass vessels, &c.) is Rs. 1,01,450: grain is sent out by way of Khairigbát on the Sarju, and timber and firewood find their way to the same place. A fair increasing yearly in importance is held during the Dasahra festival at Janglí Náth on the old bank of the river, 8 miles to the south, and another in November at Takiaghát, 5 miles to the north-west, main roads go from Nánpára to Bahraich and Naipálganj, and there are second-class district lines to Motípur (vid Saraghát) 16 miles, to Katáigbát on the Kauriála via Sbiupur, Baróhi, and Khairighát, and to Bhinga via Bhangha, 30 miles, NASIRABAD--Pargana ROKA JÁIS-Tahsil SALON-District RAE BARELI.—This town lies in latitude 26°15' north, longitude 81°34' east, and is situated forty miles west of Sultanpur, four miles south-east of Jáis, and fourteen miles north-east of Salon. This town is partly built on a rising ground which covers the ruins of an ancient fort. The water of the wells is sweet. No forests are near the place. There is a Government school here in which Urdu and Hindi are taught. There is neither saráe nor bazár here. It has only a few shops from which articles of daily con- sumption aro supplied. The annual sales amount to Rs. 20,787. The population amounts to 3,420. And the number of houses is 875, of which as many as 162 are brick-built. Sayyad Dildar Ali, the Mujtahid (high priest) of the Shia Musalmans, was a native of this town. He settled at Lucknow, and was appointed mujtahid in the reign of Saádat Ali Khan, Sayyad Muhammad, the mujtahid, who died in 1868 was his son. Mallvi Khwaja Ahmad of this town, belonging to the Sunni sect, has a good many desciples. Rája Har Parshád, Kayath, a native of this town, was the Názim or Commissioner of Khairabad Division during the reign of the ex-king. He joined the mutineers and went up to Naipál where he is said to have died. In 1867 A.D., during the Muharram, a fight took place between the Sunnis and Shias, but no lives were lost. The town is said to have been named after Nasír-ud-dín Humáyún, of Delhi, who founded it on the site of four villages. He also built a masonry fort here. But there are two more stories relating to the origin of the name; the one ascribes it to Ibrahim Sharqi, who is alleged to have built the fort in the name of his son, Nasír-ud-dín, and the other to Sayyad Zikria, who transmigrated from Jáis to this place, and is said to have founded the town in the name of his grandfather, Nasír-ud-dín. The descendants of Zikria are still in posses- sion of the place, and thus give some clue to the latter story. The Musal- mans reached this place not before they occupied Jáis. The Hindus, how- ever, seom to have come to this place at a time anterior to theirs, though the exact dates are unknown: The Káyaths of Nasírabad are descendants of Ráo Híra Mal, who, on the overthrow of the Ujjain ráj, came to Mungi Pátan, and thence accompanied the Bais chief, Ráe Ahban, who invaded Oudh along with the forces of Alá-ud-din Ghori. Ráe Bhíkham Ráe, son of Sánbhar Mal, came here as paymaster-general. NAWABGANJ Pargana-Tahsil NAWABGANJ--District BARA BANKI.-- This pargana is bounded on the north by Rámnagar and Fatehpur, on the east by Daryabad, on the west by Dewa, and on the south by Partabganj.