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 AMO AMS 61

Male Adults 236 383

Minors 147

Female Adults 130 Minors 109

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AMOSI *Pargana BIJNAUR-Tahsil LUCKNOW-District LUCKNOW.- Amosi is situated near the centre of the Bijnaur pargana, about 8 miles from Lucknow, a little to the west of the Lucknow and Cawnpore road, and 4 miles from the town of Bijnaur. It has no pretensions to be classed amongst the towns of Bijnaur, and is noteworthy only as the head-quarters village of a clan of Chauháns who invaded the pargana somewhere about the middle of the fifteenth century. They at one time seem to have occupied the greater part of the pargana, but gave way to the Shekhs of Bijnaur. The Chauhans say that the whole pargana was previously held by Bhars, whom they attacked and drove out, and they point to a large mound outside the village where they buried the fallen Bhars. The village contains a population of about 2,350 souls, of whom nearly all are Hindus, and many of them the proprietary cultivators of the soil. There are 388 houses, all kachcha; and the neatest among them, with its brick pillars and a verandah, is the small Government school at which some 65 boys attend. In the village is the door-post of the house of the old Chauhan leader, Brináik, whom they revere under the name of Brináik Bába, and make offerings to him on the occasion of any auspicious event, as the marriage or the birth of a boy. The village is surrounded on all sides by wide úsar (barren) plains. Of the population 82 are Musal- mans, and 2,072 are Hindus. AMRITAPUR-Pargana KHERI-Tahsil LAKHIMPUR-District KHERI.- A village in pargana Kheri. Articles of country consumption are sold. The average sale of cotton fabrics is estimated at Rs. 4,000 annually. It belongs to Rája Anrudh Singh, Taluqdar of Oel. Area in acres... 434 177 Cultivated 244 Culturable waste Barren 434 +1 Population 334 648 Hindus Muhammadans Male Female Male Female ... EL 544 > 742 628.50 387-81 175-41 444 65-37 DOO 837 246 337 " 622 285 109 215 106 455 AMSIN Parganat-Tahsil FYZABAD-District FYZABAD.-The pargana Amsin has an area of 68,311 acres, of which 42,543 acres are cultivated, 10,203 are fit for cultivation, and 15,505 acres comprise the unculturable waste and the sites of villages and towns. The pargana is bounded on the north by the river Sarju or Gogra, on the south by the river Madha, on the east by Pargana Tanda and on the west by Parganas Haweli Oudh and Pachhimráth. In the Nawabi there were 294 villages, 14 chaks, 1 jot in the pargana, of which 282 villages, 5 chaks and 1 jot were parent villages, and the remainder were dákhilis.
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By Mr. Carnegy, Commissioner.
 * By H. H. Butta, Esq., Assistant Commissioner.