1904.] H. R. Nevill —Mahals in Sarkar Lakhnau. 253 
I cannot find anywhere.” The italics are my own. Mr. Millett 
says 1 Bangawan * and places it in Sitapur. There is a village of this 
name in the Sadarpur pargana, of Sitapur, and this may do very well. 
The proprietors were Bais, but this clan has many colonies in Sitapur. 
Sadarpur was in the Khairabad Sarkar, but the boundaries have 
changed since, and we can find room for Bang wan in the north of 
pargana Fatehpur of Bara Banki. I am afraid I can offer no more con- 
t vincing solution. 
Turning from construction to correction, I may first tarry in Bara 
Banki to point out that Dadrah, which, according to Mr. Beames, “ ap¬ 
pears to account for a portion of the blank space in the Bara Banki 
district not covered by any name in the Ain,” is a village in the 
Nawabganj pargana, a recent creation of the Nawabi Government. 
The blank space in question consists of Nawabganj and Partabganj, 
and these may well be divided between Dewa, a very large mahal, 
and Dadrah. The remaining notes concern Unao again. Mr. Beames 
states that Saron was the old name for Sikandarpur. This is a mistake 
arising from a somewhat natural confusion. It should be Sarosi, but 
this, however, was not the old name of any village, but a place which 
still is well-known and stands about a mile east of Sikandarpur, giving 
its name to a Parihar taluqa. Saron, on the other hand, is obviously 
the modern Sarwan, a village of great antiquity in the north of pargana 
Mauranwan. I see that Mr. Beames gives it its proper position in the 
map that accompanied his paper. 
This clears up the whole of the sarkar, which can now be recon¬ 
stituted with a close approach to certainty. The parganas have for the 
most part retained their old names, and the exceptions are due either 
to the self-glorification of the later Oudh officials or else to the division 
of one mahal into two, as, for example, pargana Pariar in Unao formed 
out of Sarosi, or the amalgamation of small units into a single large 
area, as in the case of Sareni. Historically, the matter is of much 
importance ; for in Oudh above all other parts of the United Provinces 
the mahals and parganas correspond with the areas under the sway of 
particular chieftains and clans. 
