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FAT In Fatehpur

The

itself ig

a temple to Mahar^j Hazari

soil is chiefly clay,

some

of it sand,

Indian-corn of the hest quality crops are

fair.

The pargana

is

comprises ninety-one villages. feet from the surface.

The area

Ji,

is

and

57,525,

is

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Acres

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Zamindari

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Government

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faqir.

and here and there a

Pattidari (imperfect)

...

a

little

loam.

is grown in this pargana, and the harley sixteen miles long by eight hroad, and Water is to be found from seven to forty

of the pargana in acres

Taluqdari

397

divided as follows



25,966 5,442'

25,806 308

The land revenue is Es. 62,583, and the assessment falls at Ee. 1-1-6 per acre 1,237 acres are under groves. The census report shows the population of this pargana 41,711. There are four b&zars, and two or three small bathing fairs held annually at the ghats on the banks of the Ganges. In September of every year a fair is held in Fatehpur itself at the Eamlila. The cultivators of this pargana are fairly well-to-do.

The

following account of the Janwars, the lords of this pargana,

by Mr. EUiott (Chronicles

of

Unao, page 32)

is

given



"

After the taking of Canouj and the expulsion of the Eahtores, the were the Junwars, who settled in the pergunnah of Bangermow. The Junwars came from Bullubgurh, near Delhi, and colonized twenty-four villages, which lie partly in the north-western corner of pergunnah Bangermow and partly in the Hurdui district. Sooruj and Dasoo were their leaders but Sooruj would not stop here, and went on to the country beyond the Gogra, were he founded the Ekona Eaj, of which the Maharaja of Bulrampore, through rebellion and extinction of the elder branch, is now the head. Dasoo, the younger brother, received the title of Eawut, and when his descendants divided their twenty-four villages into four portions (or turufs), the eldest and principal branch was called the Eotana Tu'ruf or the Eawut branch. They received six villages, and an equal share to each of the three younger branches, who are named after Lai, Bhan, and Seethoo, their These four branches have this peculiarity, that the respective heads. estate has always descended entire to the eldest son, and the cadets are provided for by receiving a few fields for cultivation at low rent rates.* One village has been given to the Chundeles as the marriage portion of a Junwar bride, and one or two have been alienated through debts and mortgages but each of the four branches of the family still retain the majority of their original villages, and the eldest son holds the whole of the lands belonging to his branch. earliest colonists





it was this uncommon law of primogeniture that drove out the whether a younger son entered the Delhi service and received the tract as a jagheer, is doubtful but nine generations, or about 250 years ago, a large branch of these Junwars settled in the pergunnah of Futtehpore Chowrasee, taking the land from the aboriginal Thutheras' (or braziers)

"

Whether

cadets, or



'

" *ThiB IB the only instance zemindaree estate."

I

know

of the

'

guddee' or entail principle existing in a small