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398 SIT SRI Delhi in her honour by certain Nirbansi Chhattris, whose descendants, as Nandbansis, held it down to modern times. It now belongs to a Káyath family. The population vumbers 5,780, being pretty equally divided between Hindus and Musalmans, being about 5 of the former to 6 of the latter, There are besides the ordinary Musalman and Hindu religious buildings a temple in honour of Debi, and said to have been founded by Síta, a num- ber of Government buildings, such as a school-house, district offices, jail, dispensary, &c.; and as the place is at the same time the headquarters of a Commissioner, and is garrisoned by European and native troops, there are good bazars in which not only country but also foreign commodities can be purchased. From Sitapur travellers can proceed to Lucknow or Shahjahanpur by dåk gári, the roads to either being metalled, and to Hardoi 40 miles, and Kheri 30, by palanquin dåk on a good unmetalled road. The town and station are prettily situated, with good groves in all directions; an extensive serpentine artificial lake is a great ornament. The Sarayan river meandering to the south-east is fordable in the dry weather, but in the rains rises to a great height, and occasionally as in 1870 floods the town, There is no water communication with any other town; neither canal nor railway come near the place. There are no manufactures, no very large fairs, though 8,000 people are said to attend at the Kans-ka-mela in Bhadon (August), nor is the place in any way historically famous. There are 56 masonry and 980 mud-built houses in the native town, attending the school are 170 boys. The bazar sales are estimated to average annually Rs. 4,82,010. The town lies in longitude east 80°43' and in north latitude 27°35'. SRINAGAR Pargana--Tahsil LAKRIMPUR-District KHERI.—The par- gana as it is at present constituted consists of the old pargana of Srina- gar, and the trans-Ul portion of the old pargana of Kheri, consisting of 51 villages of that pargana which have been transferred since the census was taken. Previous to this there had been a rectification of frontiers along the Chauka, and the cis-Chauka portion of pargana Dhaurahra, consist- ing of eleven villages and one grant, were transferred to Srinagar ; on the other hand, the trans-Chauka villages of the old pargana of Srinagar now belong to Dhaurahra. The pargana is very irregularly shaped, something between a square and a circle. It is bounded on the west by pargana Bhúr; there is no natural boundary, and the line of separation is irregular and about 21 miles in length; on this side the pargana is only 15 miles in length from north to south. On the south it is 24 miles broad, and is separated from Pargana Kheri by the river Ul, and on the north it is 22 miles broad, and separated from pargana Dhaurahra by the river Chauka. At the north-west corner at Pachperi Ghát it just touches pargana Nigh- On the east there is no natural boundary, and here the pargana is only seven miles long from north to south. It is bounded on this side by the pargana of Tambaur in the district of Sitapur. The original gcographical feature of this pargana is the river Chauka or Sárda, and the history and topography of the pargana would to a great san.