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500 MITMOH 2,006 Re 100 POD ... 147 two Hindu temples and the remains of a mud fort. It has a market in which articles of country consumption are sold and exchanged. Mitauli was the residence of the late Rája Lone Singh, for whose rebel- lion during the year 1857-58 it was confiscated under a judicial sentence. In reward for good services during that period, Government conferred the proprietary rights in this and other villages on Captain Orr, who sold them to Rája Amír Hasan Khan, taluqdar of Mahmudabad. The fort was a very strong one, but was abandoned without opposition by the rája on the approach of the English troops. Population Hindus ... 1,869 Musalmans The following is from Sleeman's Tour in Oudh;- "Lonec Sing's estate of Mitholee is in the Mahomdee district, and under the jurisdiction the Amil; and it is only the portion consist- ing of one hundred and four recently acquired villages which he holds in the Pyla estate, in the Khyrabad district, that has been made over to the Huzoor Tahsoel.* He offered an increased rate for these villages to the then Amil, Bhow-ood-Dowlah, in the year A. D. 1840. It was accept- ed, and he attacked, plundered, and murdered a good many of the old proprietors, and established such a dread among them, that he now manages them with little difficulty. Basdeo held fourteen of these villages under mortgage, and sixteen more under lcasc. He had his brother, maternal uncle, and a servant killed by Lonee Sing and is now reduced to beggary. Lonee Sing took the lease in March, 1840, and commenced bis attack in May."- Page 121, Volumn II., Sleeman's Tour through Oudh. MOHAN–Pargana MOHÁN AURKS--Tahsil MOHÁN-District UNAO.- This is a Muhammadan town of considerable size and importance, and was in the Nawabi on the highway between Lucknow and Cawnpore. It is twenty-four miles north-west from Unao. Its distance from Lucknow with which it is connected by a good though unmetalled road is eighteen miles. In addition to this it bas other roads running through it from Aurás and Malihabad to Baui Bridge on the Lucknow and Cawnpore road, crossing the Cawnpore railway at Harauni station, and others which pro- ceed west over the Sai into Unao. The town is picturesquely situated on the banks of the Sai, which is crossed a little below the town by a fine and massive bridge built by Mahárája Newal Ráe, Kayath, the minister of Safdar Jang. The town consists of 1,117 houses, and contains one or two good streets paved with brick. The inhabitants number 4,627, half of whom are Muhammadans, and many of them are of respectable families, who in the Nawabi found service in the city or at court, but now live on the produce of their groves. But for two professions tle town has always been celebrated its learned Muhammadan doctors of physic, and its mimics and actors of the Muhammadan class, who have returned here to live on the fortrines they have earned. • " Anrod Sing holds twenty-eight villages in the Pola estate, acquired in the same way as those bield by Lonee Sing."