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19,647

130 443

agricultural non-agricultural

573

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The Musalmans aTe thus only 2'8 per cent, of the entire population, an exceedingly low percentage indeed, the provincial percentage being 10. There are 5-5 individuals to each of the 3,638 mud-built houses in which the population reside. And there are 316 souls to the square mile, which Each head of the IS very much lower than the district average of 417. agricultural population has on an average 2| acres of cultivation, and 3 acres of malguzari, both of which figures are much higher than those in the parganas of tahsils Bari and Sitapur.

The rents are almost entirely paid in kind, those paid in cash amounting to only -jL of the whole, and the principle in which the amount to be received by the zamindar is fixed, is as follows : The maund is first of all

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divided into two portions of 20 sers each the zamindar then takes five sers from the heap in the threshingfloor as haqq-i-zamindari, in other words out of every 45 sers the zamindar gets 25 against the ryot's 20. Then each party gives 2| sers out of his share to the village servants, and the final result is as follows, -oxit of every 45 sers the zamindar gets 22|, the ryot gets 17J, the patwari and others five. There is none of the kdr or churwa which is known in other parts of the district.

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The pargana on the whole is a poor one, the population is scanty, the The villages to the east bordering on cultivated land not of the best. the Sarayan are much cut up by ravines, and to the west are subject to a though some deposit of sand blown from the Gumti in the hot season few of them, those to the south especially, have a fertile tract of tarai land fringing the river.

There are no made roads in the pargana, but both the Gumti and the Sarayan afford good water communication. The Lucknow metalled road passes within three miles of its eastern boundary. ,

are all small, Gundlamau Khas itself having only 585 inhabbazars are three only, at Gundlamau, Saholi, and Alipur, and at these nothing but the most ordinary articles of trade are sold. There are no manufactures in the pargana, no mines, no quarries, no crop of more than the average yield or quality. The appearance of the country is a dead level, well-wooded, with no lakes, forests or mountains.

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