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The history of the pafgana is very uninteresting and is to the effect that the early inhabitants were Kachheras, and that they were driven out by the three sons of a Bachhil Ghhattri styled Chhipi Khan, the Khan being an honorary title bestowed on him by the king of Delhi for good services in war. This hero had three sons, namely, Gonde Singh, who founded, and gave his name to, Gundlamau Narhar Singh, who founded Narharpur and Daulat Singh, who founded Daulatpur in pargana Machhrehta. The descendants of these Bachhils still own the greater part of the pargana, having 53 out of the 67 villages into which it has been now demarcated. In the north-east of the pargana is the Kuchldi estate owned by a community of this tribe, and once known as pargana Kuchldi.



The 67

villages are held thus Bachhils



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pargana Man wan) ... Bais {vide pargana Ban) ... ... Sombansi (couault pargana Partabgarh)

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Janwar Kayath

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Brahman

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The remaining two are taluqdari, and belong Manw^n.

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The pargana

is not remarkable for having produced any famous men, or having been the scene of any event of note in history. It has no remains of antiquity, nor are any religious fairs held within] its boundaries.

for

GUNDWA Pargana*— Tahsil Sandila— District Hardoi.— A tract of 117 on the right bank of the Gumti, bounded on the north and east by the Gumti, separating it from parganas Aurangabad, Gundlamau, and Man wan in the Sitapur district; on the south by pargana Malihabad of Lucknow ; on the west by parganas Sandila and Kalyanmal. villages

With an extreme length and breadth of fifteen miles, it covers an area The of 140 square miles, of which 88 or 62-06 per cent, are cultivated. culturable area is 2122 per cent, and the barren area 14-85 of the whole. Eather more than a third ( 35-91 per cent.) of the soil is rated as of the third class, that is light and sandy, (bhur). Not quite a fourth (23-46 per cent.) is watered. irrigated from the 941 wells is very low, only 285 per tanks water the remaining 20-61 percent. 1-87 per cent, is under groves. The average area of cultivation to each plough is 7-75 acres.

The proportion

cent. 1,567

notice in the natural features of the pargana. Branching ravines, occasional sand hills, and poor uneven stretches of bhur chaTowards the southracterize that side which lies towards the Gumti. have silted up and become to seems river the channel of east corner an old converted into a network of jhils. Even when, away from the river, the surface soil changes from bhtir to dumat, the sand still remains as a substratum making wells difficult and expensive. As in Gopamau, at intervals

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is little to



By Mr, A.

Harington,

c. s,,

Aesistant Commissioner.

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