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 — BHA by R^o Mardan Singh, the Khera, who was the

nd,ziin of

279

ancestor of the place.

Bahu

R^m

Bakhsh

of

Daundia

In earlier times the villages comprised in the pargana Bhagwantnagar were included in others adjoining it, but a hundred years ago, when R^o Mardan Singh's wife, Bhagwant Kunwar, founded this village and called it by her own name, her husband made it the head-quarters of the pargana. During the king's reign a tahsildar resided here, and after some changes under the British rule, the village Bhagwantnagar was fixed as the headquarters of a tahsil at the end of the year 1866, but it was again transferred to Bihar in 1867. The pargana comprises 53 villages under the proprietorship of individuals of different castes and clans. This pargana is in shape a parallelogxam its length from east to West is twelve miles, and breadth from north to south ten.

and is bounded on the east by the Khiron and Sareni, on the west b}' Katra Diwan Khera of pargana Ghatampur, on the north by parganas Bihar, Pdtan, and Magrayar, and on the south by pargana Daundia Khera. It

is

forty-five square miles in area,

villages of parganas

The

proprietary rights are as follows



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Zamindari Fattidari

The

area

is

28,744 acres, and the revenue paid to Government amounts

The population is composed to Rs. 67,710, averaging Rs. 2-5-8 per acre. The chiefly of Brahmans and other higher castes, and numbers 26,565. river Kharhi, which flows through this pargana, takes its rise from the tanks Belha and Balganj in pargana Daundia Khera, and passing through Bhagwantnagar and also Bih^r joins the river Lon. There is also a river named Suwawan, which has its source from a tailk in village Bhadewa of this pargana, and then flowing through some villages joins the river Lon in Both these, however, are not of much service to the country, but Bihar. are on the contrary, sometimes mischievous, overflowing their banks and inundating the whole of the land around, thus causing great loss to the landlord and tenant. The soil is principally loam and clay. The principal autumn crops are cotton, rice, millet, mung, vetches, Indian corn, oil-seeds, ghuiyan (arum colocasia), sweet potato (convolvulus batatas). And the spring crops are wheat, barley, gram, peas, oil-seeds, and sugarcane. The irrigated soil in this pargana is four times as much as the unirrigated, the water in wells is found at an average depth of 40 feet. The climate is, on the whole, good and suited to the constitution of the people. There is a market held in Bhagwantnagar Khas on Mondays and Fridays. It is a good one, and bankers and braziers do a good business. There the

is

no separate

fairs of Batesar, of

cattle market.

Benduki

or of

The country oxen Makanpur,

are purchased at ,