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what changes have been made,

as well in the outer boundary line as also in the internal sub-divisional arrangements :— According to the latest return the cultivation of the

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district first,

find that it thirteen parganas, as follows

district.



was made up of



Akbarpur, Tanda,

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L Tahsil Akbarpur

Birhar,

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Majhaura,

Aldemau, Surharpur

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Tahsil Dostpur •

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Haweli Oudh,

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Mangalsi,

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Amsin, Pachhimrath,

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Fyzabad

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Sultanpur-Baraunsa,

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Isauli, y Tahsil Bhartipur Jagdispur-Khandansa, J giving an aggregate area of 2,332 square miles, or 646 square miles more ^^^^ *^® present district, and containing 3,601 demarIta area. cated mauzas, some of which for settlement purposes had been divided into their component villages; the whole number thus

amounting

to 3,690.

The population is given in the census Its population.

report for 1869 as amounting to so ^^ 1,440,957, resulting in the large average of 616 souls to the square mile.

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The boundaries

of the district were on the west and north identical with those of the new district. On the east, in addioun anea. ^^^^ ^^ Azamgarh, the Jaunpur collectorate formed the boundary. On the south the entire frontier of some seventy-five miles was washed by the river Gumti, and in some parts the district was so wide as forty-four miles.

A glance

at the

Inconvenience of the former arrangement.

map

will show how inconvenient this arrangement was. With the county town and all the courts and public

offices in the extreme north of the country, the inhabitants of the Bhartipur and Dostpur tahsils (vide above ) in the southeast were obliged to undertake long and laborious journeys in all seasons of the year when they had any business of importance to conduct, or when they were summoned on public duty by the authorities ; and that, too, although they were living in large numbers actually within sight of the

county town of another

district

(Sultanpur).

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