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All this south-eastern country, aggregating, as stated above, some square miles in area, was accordingly taken from the jurisdiction of the Fyzabad courts and added to the Sultanpur district and the parganas of the new coUectorate were re-disThe change made



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This will be more clearly seen from the annexed tabular statement, showing at one view the area, population, and number of villages for the old and the new parganas. Suffice it to state here that the alterations were all of them made with a view to rendering the parganas more compact, and that no doubt this end has been attained. This table does not show the numbers of the agricultural and non-agrithey are as follows:

cultural classes



Agricultural.

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Non-agricultural,

665,740 37,912

286,620 62,498

703,652

349,118

The agricultural population is therefore 67 per cent., but this does not include the large class of day-labourers,.wh.ose almost entire dependence is on the soil.