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 02 PAR name from having been the residence of Paras Rám. The soil is principally clay. There is a pleasing variety of hill and hollow round this town. There is no jungle Climate healthy and water good. Some 500 years ago there was a great contest between Himmat Singh, ancestor of the present possessors, and the Subahdar of the king of Delhi. There are still ruins of an old fort built by Hiinmat Singh. The population is divided as follows: Hindus. Musalmans. None. Total, 1,048 Brahman Chhattris Koris Ahirs Others 102 31 178 703 PO. Total ... 1,048 There ar 191 inud-built houses. Latitude Longitude 96012 north $0046' east. PARSHÁDEPUR Pargana-Tahril SALON-District RAE BARELI.--This pargana formerly in the Partabgarh district lies north of the Sai; its area is fifty-four square miles or 34,691 acres. The population is 33,037 or 612 to the square mile, almost entirely Hindu-3,722 are Brabmans, 2,811 are Chhattris, 5,576 are Ahírs. Chhattris kold forty-two out of the sixty villages. The Kanhpurias are only fifty-two, showing that they have recently sprcad into this pargana; the Gautams are 2,350. There are sixty villages now in Parshádepur held as under :- Ganterns Kanhpurias Muhammadans Brahmans Others Jungle grant Villages 16 28 6 3 7 2 60 villages This pargana had no existence as such till about 1190 fasli (A. D. 1783); it was part of the Nasírabad Pargana given in Jágír to the Bahú Begam. In her tenure Parghádepur and Ateha were constituted as parganas. Another account gives Sikandarpur as the old name of this pargana, and Pars, a Bhar chief, is said to have called it Parshádepur. The Bhars were driven from here as from other places by Muhammadans, whose traces are found in the names of villages as Rashidpur, Mohí-ud- dínpur, and Diláwarpur, &c. The Patháns were ejected through the instru- mentality of a Kurmi, named Dási, who it is said became a Moslem, and gaining influence at the court of Delhi, acquired a grant of the pargana. Dási was himself killed and succeeded by some Gautam Rajputs, who are still in the pargana represented by Ráe" Mahipal Singh, Taluqdar of Bára, and other owners of six independent villages.