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QudratuUa Beg became amdni chakladar, and held Bhifaulf, 1262. Eamnagar, and Muhammadpur at Es. 1,54<,000, which was paid in. The actual amount of his collections is unknown, but the country was ruined by the outrageous extortions of tahsildars and jamogdars. It is supposed Several villages fell out of cultivation, that Ks. 3,00,000 were collected. asamis having sold their ploughs and oxen. It wiU be observed from the foregoing that the revenue paid by the taluqdar was genferally Ks. 1,50,000, varying from Es. 1,80,000 to 1,46,000. It was optional with the Government of the day to leave the estate to the owner even when it did do so it often collected direct from the tenants and oppressed them. Now Government has given the owners a lease at Es. 1,64,561 for thirty years, and engages to renew the lease at the expiry of that period on similar moderate terms they collect above Es. 3,50,000 from the tenantry in the three parganas.



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Tahsil LAKHfMPUR District Kheri.—Pargana Bhnr, at present constituted, consists of all that part of the old pargana

Pargana*

it is

of the same name which lies to the south and west of the river Chauka, and of the whole of the old pargana of Aliganj. It is one of the largest parganas in Oudh.

The

which forms the present pargana is in shape an somewhat resembling a wedge, extending from the narrow end, to south-east, the wide end.

tract of country

irregular parallelogram,

north-west, which

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On its north side the pargana is 42 miles in length, and is bounded for 18 miles, beginning from the west, by pargana Palia, and for the next 24 miles by pargana Nighasan, from both of which it is separated by the river Chauka, except for a space of nine miles near the north-west corner of the pargana, where the river has encroached towards the north-east and left portions of seven villages of pargana Palia on its southern side, touching Bhur. The area is 376 square miles. At the west extremity the pargana is only 2J miles wide, and touches the districts of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur in the North-West Provinces. Along the south, Bhur is 38 miles in length beginning at the west, it bounded for 9 miles by Shahjahanpur, for 19 miles by pargana Kukra Mailani, for 8 miles by pargana Paila and for 2 miles by pargana Kheri. The river Ul takes its rise from a marsh at the western extremity of the pargana, and forms its southern boundary for the whole length of 38 miles. At the eastern end Bhur is about 15 miles in width, and is bounded by pargana Srinagar there is no natural boundary, and the line of separation is very irregular and about 21 miles in length.

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Bhur

marked geographical feature which imparts a and marks it off into two natural divithe upper country and the lower country or ganjar. This is a high possesses one very

distinctive character to the pargana sions,

bank, forming a sudden rise of from 20 feet to 50 feet in the land from the north to the south. The bank runs in a direction generally about paralled to the river Chauka, and the river at one time flowed just under

By Mr.

J. 0.

Williams,

c. s.,

Assistant

Cozflinissioiier.