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—— — BEH—BET
BEHTI
KALAISr
—
Pargana
Sareni
— Tahsil
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Lalganj
— District
Rae
Bareli. The river Lon flows to the south of this town, which is of no importance it is embosomed in groves over which rises the spire of a fine Hindu temple to MahAdeo recently erected at a cost of Rs. 50,000. small school attended by thirty-two boys is another institution the population is, 4,798. No road passes near the town.
A
BELA
— Tahsil
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District Partabwhose temple is on the bank of the Sai. In 1209 Fasli, the place was settled as a cantonment for the Oudh auxiliary force. It is on the metalled road from Allahabad to Fyzabad it is four miles from Partabgarh and thirty-six from Allahabad. A fine bridge of nine arches over the Sai was destroyed in the floods of 1870 it has since been rebuilt. The population is 2,746. There are four mosques, one Anglo-vernacular school, attended by thirty-five Musalmans and 97 Hindu youths. MacAndrewganj adjoins this town its annual sales are about Rs. 60,000. Here the Government district officers reside and have their offices.
GAKH.
Pargana, Partabgarh
—This town
is
Partabgarh
called after Bela Bhawdni,
BENIGANJ*
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—District Hardoi—
Pargana Sandila— Ta/tsiZ Sandila
Beniganj 2,284 inhabitants, a good-sized village, mainly Ahir, of 545 mud houses, 21 miles south-east from Hardoi, and sixteen miles north from Sandila on the unmetalled road from Sitapur and Nimkhar, which here branches off to Sandila and Bilgram. The old name of Beniganj was Ahmadabad Sarsand. Its earliest owners are said to have been Jogis and Arakhs. Some six hundred years ago a body of Janwars who had settled in the neighbouring villages of Gaju and Tikari under the leadership of Dewa Rae, Prag Rae, and Nek R£e, drove out the Arakhs from this and forty-seven other villages. Rather more than a hundred years ago, Beni Bahadur, Kayath, Diwan of the Nawab Wazfr Shuja-ud-daula, built a row of shops and called the place Beniganj. About eighty years ago proprietary possession passed into the hands of one Ram Das, an Ahir from Akia beyond the Ganges. After holding the village for twenty years the Ahirs had to strengthen themselves by an alliance with Gobinde Kayath, Chaudhri of Khairabad, and purchased his assistance with half their lands. Since then Kayaths and Ahirs have held Beniganj in equal shares. Ten years later it was included in the Kakrali taluqa by Chaudhri Mansab Ali, father of the late Chaudhri Hashmat Ali.
There is a police station at Beoiganj, a village school averaging fiftytwo pupils, and a weekly market on Saturdays. The open plains round Beniganj teem with antelope.
BETAGAON Pargana Knimis-^TahsiZ Lalgasj—District Rae Bareli. A large village, or rather collection of hamlets, in the Rae Bareli disIt is on the road from Bareli to Cawnpore at a There is one temple in honour of distance of twelve miles from Bareli. Anandi Debi, also a school attended by about forty boys. Markets are held
trict in tahsil Lalganj.
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By Mr.
A. H. Haringtop,
c.
s.
Assistant Cpumrosjoiie;:.
