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BIS The land

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tlie

pargana

Cultivated acres Culturable Rent-free

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Barren

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337

thus classified

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100,508 20,300 180 20,068

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141,056

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which shows that to each head of the agricultural population there are about If acres of cultivated and 2 acres of culturable land. There is thus a not inconsiderable scope for extended cultivation.

The pargana

is

very well

off for bazars, there being, in addition to

the

numerous markets of Biswan Khas (quid vide), the following Dhaukalganj, Mir Sarae, Muhammadpur, Lalpur, Sanda, Jhua, Sarayyan, Mirzapur,

Ratnapur, Pakaria, Jahangirabad, Mathna, Mah^rajnagar, Bilwa, Teola. These are held bi-weekly, and supply the people with all the necessaries of life. The bazars in the town of Biswan are numerous, and are held throughout the week. Here a considerable trade is carried on by the tobacconists, by the tdzia and tablit manufacturers, and the cloth-stampers. Maharajnagar is famous in the district for the good lime obtained from its kankar. There are many melas or religious fairs held throughout the pargana. The following is a list of the principal ones Benipur, in Shawwal and Zihijj for prayer at the Idgdh. 1. 2. At the Dargdh Sayyad Sdldr ; in May for the pilgrims who return from Bahraich. MaJuirdjnagar ; the Ramlila in September and October. 3. 4. Bilwa ; the " Dhanuk Jagg " in Aghan, to celebrate the breaking of the bow by Rama previous to his marriage with Sita in Janakpur.

6.

in April, in honour of Bishwandth {vide town history) this w-eZa has not taken place for the past three years owing to a local quarrel.

Biswan Khas ;

Biswdn ; Mansa Ram's

imela monthly.

Scattered through the pargana are five masonry tanks, namely, At Jhajhar ; built by Ganga Bishan.

BhagwdnpuT ; very ancient, one side only being visible. „ Biswdn Khas ; built by the wife of Beni Das, qanungo, with a shiwala called " Dudh Nath Ka." In Teola ; built in 1201 Fasli by Bishan Das, a Nanak Shahi „

ascetic.

This built by a mahajan beside a shiwala. mahajan was a Brahman, and is said to have become a Muhammadan and accompanied a Mughal captain to Delhi, where he

In Muhdrdjnagar ;

inherited his patron's fortune, with which, having returned home, he purchased absolution for his apostasy and was re-admitted into the brotherhood. This occurred in the last century.

Besides these tanks there Biswd,n Khas boasts of 17, 12 to Debi, and the remaining Shdhi s'angats in the town,

are

many Hindu

temples in the pargana,

which are in honour of Shiva, four sacred one a Jain temple. There are two Ndnak and one in Jhajhar hard by, and a fourth in of

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