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 SAD 277 pargana. The Fifty-six of the former are held by the Mahmudabad taluqdar, and 11 by Thákur Gumán Singh of the neighbouring Kundri pro- prietary title to the 160 villages is distributed thus—1194 Musalmans ; 11 Raikwárs; 5 Seths ; 4 Janwar Chhattris; 4 Panwars, 4 Kashmiri Brah- mans. The remainder are held by Káyaths, bankers, and a Gosháín. The account which makes the Káyaths once powerful over the whole pargana is no doubt incorrect, and no one but the qápúngos believe it, if even they do. But it has been recorded here as being the only history of the place which I have been able to procure. In the Ain-i-Akbari the pargana of Sadrpur is included in Sarkár Khairabad. SADRPUR*--Pargana SADRPUR—Tahsil Bári— District SITAPUR.-Sadr- pur is 30 miles south-east from Sitapur, the route from which place to it is the high road to Biswán, 21 miles, whence the traveller must go across coun- try still in the same direction, 9 Wiles ; neither high road, river, canal, nor rail road connect it with any place. The town was founded in the year 974 fasli (1567 A.D.) by one Sadr Jahán who gave his name to the place; subsequently a Káyath family acquired it. It is an insignificant place, with a population of only 2,109, which includes 982 of Kherwal, both towns having been demarcated as one. The mud- built houses are 280 in number, and there are some masonry buildings. At the school the average daily attendance is 57. At the usual bi-weekly bazar the ordinary necessaries of life are sold, the value of the sales for last year being Rs. 4,200. The situatiou of the town is good; the climate favourable; Mahmudabad is 10 miles to the south across country; and the chauka, a navigable river, is four miles to the north-west. No fair is held here. SADULLAHNAGAR Parganat-Tahsil UTRAULA---District GONDA.- This pargana is bounded on the north by the Utraula pargana, from which it is divided by the Kuwána, on the west by Gonda, on the east by Búrha- pára, and on the south the Bisúhi, running along its whole frontier, sepa- rates it from Manikapur. Its total area is 103 square miles, and the greatest length in a straight line from east to west 13; its greatest breadth, which is at its eastern boundary nine miles. Both of the bounding rivers are fordable after the rains by men and cattle at short intervals of one or two miles, and the more important tracks are furnished with faggot bridges for the easier transit of carts. The Utraula and Nawabganj road cuts through its western corner, passing under the police station at Rahra, and taking off the greater part of the local grain traffic. Rough cart tracks, crossing the Bisuhi at the Maddo and Singhár gháts, converge on the same bazar, and tap the eastern half of the pargana. To the north and the south along the banks of both streams is a fringe of forest vary- ing in depth from three miles to a few hundred yards, but containing little good timber. The sál trees, stunted by excessive crowding, never attain sufficient size to make them of any great value, and except the Jámun, which is plentiful, and attains a fair growth at the very brink of the water,
 * By Mr. M. Ferrar, C.S.
 * By Mr. W. C. Benett, C.S., Assistant Commissioner,