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 330 SHA south-east, is equally beautiful, from the rich crops which cover the ground up to the houses, and the fine groves and majestic single trees which surround them. " Shahabad is a very ancient and large town, occupied chiefly by Pathan Mussulmans, who are a very turbulent and fanatical set of fellows. Sub- sookh Ráe, a Hindu, and the most respectable merchant in the district, risided bere, and for some time consented to officiate, as the deputy of poor old Hafiz Abdoollalı, for the management of the town where his influence was great. He had lent a good deal of money to the heads of some of the Pathan families of the town, but finding few of them disposed to Tepay, he was last year obliged to refuse further loans. They determined to take advantage of the coming mohurrum festival to revenge the affront as mon commonly do who live among such a fanatical community." The tazeeas are commonly taken up and carried in procession ten days after the new moon is first seen at any place where they are made ; but in Oudh all go by the day in which the moon is seen from the capital of Lucknow. As soon as she is seen at Lucknow, the king issues an order throughout his dominions for the tazeeas to be taken in procession ten days after. The noon was this year in November first seen on the 30th of the month at Lucknow, but at Shahabad where the sky is generally clearer she bad been seen on the 29th. The men to whom Subsookh Rãe had refused fur- ther loans determined to take advantage of this incident to wreak their vengeance; and when the deputy promulgated the king's order for the tazeeas to be taken in procession ten days after the 30th, they insti- gated all the Mahommedans of the town to insist upon taking them out ten days after the 29th, and persuaded them that the order had been fabricated, or altered, by the malice of their Hindoo deputy to insult their religious feelings . They were taken out accordingly, and having to pass the house of Subsookh Ráe, when their excitement, or spirit of religious fervour had reached the highest pitch, they there put them down, broke open the doors, entered in a crowd, and plundered it of all the property they could find, amounting to about seventy thousand rupees. Subsookh Rae was obliged to get out, with his family, at a back door, and run for his life. He went to Shajehanpoor, in our territory, and put himself under the pro- tection of the magistrate. Not content with all this, they built a small miniature mosque at the door with some loose bricks, so that no one could go either out or in without the risk of knocking it down, or so injuring this mock mosque as to rouse, or enable the evil-minded to rouse, the whole Mahommedan population against the offender. Poor Subsooklı Rae has been utterly ruined, and ever since seeking in vain for redress. The Government is neither disposed nor able to afford it, and the poor boy who has now succeeded his learned father in the contract is helpless. The little mock mosque, of uncemented bricks, still stands as a monument of the insolence of the Mahommedan population, and the weakness and appathy of the Oudh Government.” (p.p. 46–47, Tour through Oudh, Volume II.) SHAHAB-UD-DIN-ABAD-Paryana MÁNIKPUR-Tahsil KUNDA-Dis- trict PARTABGARH.--This place was founded on the bank of the Ganges by Raja Sayyad Abdul Qadir Mir Adil. See the history of pargana Mánikpur.