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 332 SID on the Gupiti; country cloth is the only item of export. There are seven schools; the post and registry offices are at Siddhaur. There are fairs purely local in honour of Siddheshwar Mahadeo on the day of Shiuráttri, and in honour of Qázi Qutab on the Id and Baqaríd. The temple of Durga Debi at Bibipur is visited on Mondays and Fridays. The Government revenue amounts to Rs. 119,860. The tenure is as follows: Talu dari 66 villages. Zamindari Pattidari 84 48 OP 168 The populatiou amounts to 59,085. Siddhaur. and Bíbipnr are the only villages possessing a population of above 2,000 souls. This pargana had its origin in the time of Akbar Shah. l'he Bhars were the original occupants; they were expelled by the Moslems at the time of the invasion of Masaúd. The Sayyads form a great part of the population. The taluqdars of the pargana are Pánde Sarabjít Singli, Wajid Husen, and Ahmad Husen, Amjad Husen, Rája Farzand Ali Khan, Hakim Karam Ali, Bíbi Bech-un-nisa, 'Thákur Shiu Sahae, Ráni Lekhráj Kunwar, and Ghulam Qasim Khan. Sleeman writes as follows: "Tebruary 26th, 1850, Sidhore, sixteen miles west south-west. The country a plain, covered as usual with spring crops and fine foliage ; but intersected midway by the little river Kuleeanee, which causes undulations on each side. The soil chiefly dumatand light, but fertile. It abounds more in white ants than such light soil generally does. We passed through the estate of Soorujpoor Behreylee, in which so many of the baronial robbers above described reside, and through many villages beyond it, which they had lately robbed and burnt down, as far as such villages can be burnt. The mud- walls and coverings are as good as bomb-proofs against the fire, to which they are always exposed from these robbery. Only twenty days ago, Chundee Behraleea and his party attacked the village of Siswae, through which we passed a few miles from this plundered it, and killed three per- sons, and six others perished in the flames. They served several others in the neighbourhood in the same manner; and have within the same time attacked and plundered the town of Sidhore itself several times. " The boundary which separates the Dureeabad from the Sidhore district we passed some four miles back; and the greater part of the villages lately attacked are situated in the latter, which is under a separate Amil, Aga Ahmud, who is in consequence unable to collect his revenue. The Amil of Dureeabad, Girdhara Sing*on tlie contrary acquiesces in all the atrocities committed by these robbers, and is in consequence able to collect his reve- nue and secure the favour of the court. Some of the villages of the estate held by the widow of Singjoo, late Raja of Soornjpoor, are under the jurisdic- + Girdhara Sing’s palson is Chuudee Sahace, the miuiste's deputy, whose influence is aranguut at present,