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68 General remarks.

—The

population

is

generally poverty-ridden, and

to consider that the far greater portion of the pargana belongs to taluqdars, this is not a happy result of the taluqdari tenure. It would rather lead one to believe that the taluqdars are a hard rack-renting

when one comes

elass.

The general and indeed almost sole occupation of the population is that The people in this part of the district use tiled roofs of tilling the soil. It is quite the exception to see a thatched in preference to thatch. dwelling. Cultivation is very good throughout the pargana. All crops are cultivated except bajra and mung, which are rarely seen. The area in cultivation, kharif and rabi is about equal, sugar-cane is very largely cultivated, cotton and indigo but rarely, and the poppy (opium) is not a favourite crop.

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Wheeled traffic. ^Wheeled traiSe is almost unknown. One very rarely The few carts there sees a two-bullock cart and never a four-bullock one. The stores in demand at are belong to the taluqdars and rich zamindars. the local bazars, and the exports and imports by river Gogra, are carried on men's heads or on ponies.

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Alluvion and diluvion. For the last 100 years there has been no diluvion to any extent. Two years ago there was a slight alluvion in The parthree villages^ viz., at Sirwa, Raslilpur, Bharipur and Uniar. gana has high steep banks along the Gogra with the deep stream at the foot of the bank, and consequently is not so subject to change by fluvial action as the opposite lowlands of the Basti district.

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Irrigation. ^There are 1,379 wells in the pargana, from which and jhils (which as before stated are numerous) the lands are artificially watered. In the north of the pargana, along the Gogra, the wells have to be sunk a great depth before water is reached, viz., 34 feet. In the south, however, water is found at 20 feet nearly all the wells are masonry, as others, do not stand.

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There are several village schools established in the pargana, at Dilasiganj Goshainganj, Tandauli, Jtiri, and other places.

Education. viz.,

Forts.

—There were no

the pargana, but there were several fortione at Tandauli belonging to Mahardja Sir Man Singh, one at Tejapur belonging to Raja Rustam Sdh, at Samdakot of Jahangir Bakhsh, at Uniar the kot of Mahk TafazzulHusen, at Lachchigarh the kot of Babu Jai Datt Singh, and at Dharmpur the kot of Thakurain forts in

fied houses (kots), notably

Raghunath Kunwar.

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Exports and imports. Urd (vetch) is the chief export by the river Gogra, and chawal, (rice) dhan, (paddy) and makfii (Indian corn) are imported by the same route.

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Cattle. ^The homed cattle to the north of the pargana, where the grazing on the river manjhas is abundant, are above the average but as a general rule the cattle are a very inferior and starvation-dwarfed set of animals.

The

transfer of landed property in the pargana has been wholesale.