A Gazetteer of the Province of Oudh (N to Z)

Situated on the skirt of that belt of Tarai which lies immediately under the Naipal hills the pargana has been the scene of continual cotests for the debateable land between the lieges of the Delhi Sovereign and the tribes of the north. As early as the reign of Bahlol Lodi—viz. [...] Their dominions extended to the hills on the north to the south the Gogra was the boundary and on the east were the mountains of Butwal. [...] The principal export is the rice of Tulsipur Utraula and the nortwest portions of the Basti district and during the end of the cold weather the infamous road from Utraula which forms the only channel for this trade is blocked by strings of carts often numbering over a hundred in a single line. [...] It is two miles east of the tahsil station Mohan and 26 south-east of the sadr (Unao.) The former was built by Maharaja Newel Rae the Naib of Nawab Safdarjang and the same who built th over the Sai at Mohan ; the latter is a continuation of it built by Bilkrishn the late finance minister of the ex-king. [...] The Sarju is a narrow stream of an average width of 50 yards ; the depth of water at the fords is only a few feet and the fords are numerous ; the current is slower than that of the Chauka ; the banks are generally about 20 feet high both on the north and south side or even higher ; sometimes they follow close along the edge of the river and sem: times reach to a distance of a mile or two mile