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The Kanauj reigned at Kanauj. Ganges and drive out the Thatheras. They engaged the Thatheras at Tirwa Keoli and routed them with slaughTo this day the braziers, Thatheras of Bhagwantnagar, speak of ter. The Chandels their lost possessions in Kachhandan and Mallinwdn. obtained by this conquest twenty-four villages, Tirwa Keoli being the chief. When Sher Shah marched from Jaunpur to Agra, circumcising and slaying all whom he met, the Chandels of Motiamau, Harpdra, and Baraich-man They marry apostatized and became Shekhs to preserve their rights. into the families of Ahbans, Kaikwars, and Gahilwars in Edngarmau who were converted at the same time.

of service while a raja deputed

Hindu king

them

still

to cross the

The above facts show that the Ganges must have shifted westward from its old bed at least eight hundred years ago. During the last two hundred years (if the qaniingo is to be believed) 18 of the 52 villages which in Sher Shah's time made up the pargana of Kachhandan have been washed away by the Ganges. Their names are said to be Aminpur, Ajitpur, Ausangpur, i[dampur, Bahadurpur, Bahandpur, Rampur, Rtippur, Sundarpur, Sarae Mansur, tsapur, Adilpur, Fatehpur, Ramu, Fazilabad, Mitarsenpur, Muhiuddmpur, Muhtashimpur, and Nekpur.

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KAIMAHRA

Pargana Kheri Tahsil LAKHrMPUR District Kheri. Kaimahra, a large village in pargana Kheri, district Kheri, is situated on the road from Lakhimpur vid Muhamdi to Sh^hjahanpur, and is surrounded on all sides by groves of mango trees. It lies at a distance of about 1^ mile to the east of the Jamwdri. There is a large artificial tank to the east of Kaimahra, and there are four Hindu temples and ten mosques. It has four sugar manufactories, and a good market in which articles of country consumption are sold. The average annual price of the cotton fabrics is estimated at Rs. 1,000. estate,

wells,

It is the headquarters of the Kaimahra and belongs to Raja Narpat Siugh. There are twenty-four masonry but only one brick-built house. A vernacular school is stationed '

here.

KXKORI

Pargana* Tahsil TjucKSOVf—District Lucknow. Kakori is a small pargana with an area of sixty square miles, situated to the east of Lucknow. It is one of the three parganas of the Lucknow tahsil. On the north it is bounded by the pargana of Malihabad, on the east by Lucknow, on the south by Bijnaur, and on the west by Mohan Auras of Unao, '

By Mr,

Butts, Assistant Commissioner,