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bricks and other materials, which were sold to a railway contractor, can 
scarcely have done more than cover the cost of demolition. The Gate¬ 
way alone is now left standing, a massive brick building, but in the same 
plain and clumsy style as the tomb. 
The principal memorial of the connection of the district with the 
Lucknow Court, during the latter half of the 18th century, is to be seen 
at Kora, where is a fine masonry tank constructed in a year of famine 
by Zain-ul-abu-d-din the local Governor, under the orders of the Vazir 
Mir Almas ’Ali Khan. It has a handsome pavilion on its margin and 
across the road is a large walled garden, in two courts, with a high 
gateway between them, and at the far end a lofty double-storeyed build¬ 
ing, in the grandiose style of the period, of good proportions, but with¬ 
out much delicacy of detail. The piers of the arcades are enormously 
massive, but there are terrible cracks in the walls, probably arising from 
an unequal settlement of the foundations, in consequence of the exces¬ 
sive mass of the superstructure. Tank, garden and pavilions were all 
bestowed in gift upen a Kayath, Manna Lai alias Ram Prasad, who on 
becoming a Muhammadan, took the name of Haidar Bakhsh and had the 
title of Nasir-ul-Mulk conferred upon him by Nawab Asaf-ud-daula. As 
he died childless, the property passed to the family of his brother, who 
had remained a Hindu, and is now owned by Ikbal Bahadur, son of 
Rao Lai Bahadur, who distinguished himself by his loyalty in the mu¬ 
tiny. He built a temple of Sita Ram on the margin of the tank; but 
attached to his private dwelling-house are the mosque and imdmibdra of 
his relative, the original donee, which he keeps in repair for public use, 
though they strike a visitor as rather curious appendages to a Hindu 
establishment. 
About the same time as the tank, a long and substantial bridge was 
built over the Rind, the only one by which that river is crossed, just 
outside the town of Kora and immediately under the walls of the old 
Fort. In the Gazetteer it is incorrectly described as “a fine old Mughal 
bridgeit is really due to a baniya, named Fatih Chand. The older 
Muhammadan bridge, of which the abutments remain, a hundred yards 
or so higher up the stream, was a very mncli smaller structure, appa¬ 
rently intended only as a private approach to the Fort. 
Zain-ul-abu-d-din’s government is further commemorated by the town 
of Jafarganj, which lie named after his son Jafar ’All Khan. Here he set¬ 
tled some artisans whom he brought from Lucknow, and the three grand¬ 
sons of one of them still carry on what is the most notable art-manufac¬ 
ture in this district. Their business is that of cotton-printers, and the 
peculiarity of their work is that only the simpler part of the pattern 
is stamped, while all the finer portions are liand-painted. Bed-covers, 
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