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 28 NIG Rs. . 19 from the nature of the pargata, low. They vary from Rs. 4 to 5 per acre except for-a few Muráos, who pay Rs. 8-14 per acre. The summary revenue was 37,330 The revised demand is ... 48,450 The revenue falls at a rate of Rs. 2-0-0 on the cultivated, Re. 1-5-0 on the cultivated and culturable, and Re. 1-1-0 throughout. It falls lower than any other pargana in the districte The only two towns, with a population of more than 2,000, are the old pargana centres of Nigohán and Sissaindi. These two towns are separated from each other by a distance of some ten roiles, and lie at the east and west ends of the pargana. The former contains 2,306 and the latter 3,104. Besides these there are seven other towns, with a population of over 1,000. They are Bhadewán, Bhasanda, Bhandi, Jabrauli, Dayálpur, Diburia, Sherpur Láwal. Schools are established at Nigohán and Sissaindi, at Jabra uli, Diburia, and Láwal. Its chief bazars are held at Nigohán, Sissaindi, and Dayálpur. The former, situated on the road to Rae Bareli, is the most important; its annual sales are said to amount to Rs. 17,000. For police arrangements the pargana lies within the jurisdiction of the station fixed at the Moharılanganj tahsil, The two towns of Nigohán and Sissaindi are of importance as being the old headquarters of the two clans of Janwars and Gautams, who colonized—the former forty-two and the latter twenty-two villages. It seems that the latter were much the earliest comers, for their tradi- tions connect them with the Bais of Baiswára and the kingdom of Kanauj. or. jauli, at perhaps the end of the sixteenth century, and, it is said, drove out a tribe of Bhars, whose stronghold was on the Kakoha dih on the village of Siris. The two settlements combined form the modern pargana of Nigohán Sissaindi. Both were included in the Baiswára jurisdiction, and the Bais of the Naistha house claimed to be lords of the soil. Even at as late a date as 1231 fasli, one of the houses transferred the lordship of the pargana of Sissaindi to Raja Káshi Parshad, of whose estate it forms the chief part, while Thákur Bhagwan Bakhsh, Bais of Kusmaura, successfully occupied and still holds five villages in Nigohán. But in tlie Nigohán pargana, Gautarns, inheriting from the Janwárs, and the Janwárs of Jabrauli kept the rest, though in the end the latter were dispossessed by the Khattri bankers of Maurán wán, who farmed their villages. Both the towns that formed the headquarters of these pargauas are very old, Sissaindi was founded by Shiu Singh, one of the Gautam leaders. But to Nigohán some mythic history is attached. It is said to. have been founded by Raja Náhuk, of the Chandrabansi line of kings. And near the village to the south is a large tank, in which the legend says