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FAKHRPUR

Pargana*—Tahsil KuraSaE District BahraiCH.— Fakhrpur pargana, one of the western parganas of the Bahraich district, lies along the Gogra bank, having Hisampur on its south and east, and the Nanpara and Bahraich parganas on its north-east border. It has suffered

many

transformations; the pargana, as it is now defined, comprising a large what was formerly Firozabad, while, on the other hand, a number of its villages have been now included in Hisampur. It comprises 288 villages, with an area of 383 square miles, an extreme length of thirty miles, slica of

and an extreme breadth

Like its neighbour Hisdmpur, it has gone by several well-defined ledges parallel to the present bed of the river Gogra showing where once the stream flowed, while indentations and undulations noticeable here and there point to the same state of thing. No rivers flow through the pargana now save a sluggish stream, the Bhakosa, in one of the old beds above noticed, and the Sarju. The grove land measures four per cent, of the area, and some of the mango groves are very fine and of large extent. There are no less than 114 square miles of cuiturable waste, or 30 per cent, of the total area, a tract which mil very soon be brought under the plough, the soil being an alluvial dumat. The present cultivation measures 217 square miles, or 57 per cent, of total area, of which only two square miles are Water is met with so near the surface that at present under irrigation. of 18 miles.

beeii subject to fluvial action in ages

irrigation

is

scarcely required.

The Government demand below





for

the whole pargana

is

distributed

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