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 SIN-SIS 337 fabrics is estimated at Rs. 2,000. The place is reckoned unhealthy. Popula- tion, 1,995. The Hindits amount to 1,577 and the Moslems 418. SINJHAULI SHAHZÁDPUR-Pargana AKBARPUR.-- Tahsil AKBAR- PUR-District FYZABAD.—For the history of this town see pargana Akbar- pur. It was founded by Sujhawal, a Bhar chief, called from him Sujhawalgarh, and this shortened to Sujhauli. Khattris got this place rent-free from Akbar. Prior to this one Sayyad Táj settled here and dug a tank; a tomb in an island within this tank still bears an inscription dated 1365 A.D., one of the oldest in Oidh. It is a picturesque spot on the high bank of the Tons, opposite Akbarpur, 36 miles from Fyzabad on the road to Jaunpur, here crossed by the road from Sultanpur to Gorakhpur. There an numerous groves here. A great family of Khattri bavkers, head- ed by Gajádhar Mal and Shiuhans Rée, formerly flourished here. The population is 5,069, of whom 2,021 are Sunuis, 84 are Shias, 2,964 are Hindus. There are 916 houses, of which 24 are of masonry. There are four mosques, thrce temples to Mahadeo, and one to Bhawani. SISSAINDI-Pargana NIGOHÁN SISSAINDI— Tahsil MOHANLALGANJ District LUCKNOW.- Sissaindi is the chief village of a small pargana known in former times as the pargana of Sissaindi on the bank of the river Sai, about six miles to the south-east of the tahsil station of Mohanlal- ganj, and connected with it by a cross country road made by the taluqdar Řája Káshi Parshad, whose principal residence was in this village, and from which his taluqa takes its name. The rise of the rája's family is recent, and the village once, together with the 27 villages that formed the pargana, are said to have belonged to a clan of Gautams, an offshoot of the Argal ráj, who must have established a colony here in very early times ; for their ancestor, Bhúraj Singh, is said to have led an expedition, as a servant of the Rája of Kananj, against the Bhars of a neighbouring village, who had the presumption to propose an alliance with the daughter of a Janwar chief. The Janwár appealed to Bhúraj Singh, who was leading a Darriage pro- cession through the neighbourhood, for help, and it resulted in the invasion and conquest of the pargana by the Gautams. In the village there is a small heap of stones worshipped under the name of Bhura Baba, probably the same as Bhúraj Singh; but the name of the village seems to have been given to it by Shiu Singh, his son, if it be not due to some more mythic origin for the worship of Shiva under his emblem seems to prevail very, extensively in the village. The population is chiefly Hiudu in which there are a great many Brah- mans. The Musalman element is very small. The total population is 3,140 the and number of houses is 723, of which a very few are masonry But in the centre of the village the rája has built an imposing edifice. Notwith- standing that it was known as the headquarters of a pargana, it never attained to any importance. There are thc usual trades carried on in the village, and a good deal of traffic passes through it direct for Unao, to whiclı 43