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GUK

596

of eveiy few miles tributary nalas drop into, the Gumti, and carry to it the overflowings of the jhils of the interior. Cart-tracks link the main villages together but there are no made roads except an unmetalled one from Bhatpnrghat through Pipargaon to Malihabad. The nearest roads are the Lucknow and Sitapur metalled road, passing within four miles of the south-eastern corner of the tract, and the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, and Lucknow and Sandlla unmetalled road, which run within six miles of its south-western corner..

The staple products are barley and wheat, which at survey occupied two-fifths of the cultivated area mdsh, gram, bajra, arhar and moth covered another two-fifths ; the remaining fifth was nJainly cropped with

juar, linseed, rice, kodo, and peas. The richer prodflcts are conspicuous by their absence, the areas returned as under cotton, sugar, opium, tobacco,

and indigo being respectively only 353, 253, 83^ 56, and 6 acres. The climate is considered good. Productiveness average. Kankar has not been found, more probably, I shpuld think, from an absence of demand for it than from its non-existence.

Of the 117

villages,

94* are owned by Chhattris as noted in the margin

Bais

Hikumbhs Sakarwar ChauKans



Brahmans hold

seven,

Muhammadans six,

Kdyatbs seven, and Kurmis three. The taluqa of Bharawan comprises 48 villages, 36; are pattidari, 30 zamindari, and 3 bhayyachara. The Government demand, excluding cesses is Rs. 1,05,146 a rise of only nine per cent, on the summary assessment. Its incidence is Rs. 1-14-2 on the cultivated acre

Janwdrs ... ... ...



Rs. 1-2-9 per acre of total area Rs. 13-5-6 P^r plough Rs. 3-5-6 per head of agricultural, and Rs. 1-13-7 per head of total population.

Shekha

Ik



The pressure of population is at the rate of 406 to the square mile, and I'Ol to the cultivated acre, giving a total of 66,871. Hindus to Muhammadans are 53,643 to 3,228 ; males to females 29,989 to 26,882 ; and agriculturists to non-agrieulturists 31,463 to 25,408. Chamars, Brahmans and Ahirs are rather more than two-fifths of the whole A'rakhs, Chhattris and Muraos are nearly another fifth. Of the rest Pasis and Juldhas are most numerous. The actual numbers of Brahmans and Chhattris are 8,037 and 3,523.

Village schools have been

and Bharawan

On

the 8th of

at a shrine of

Gundwa

(49),

Chait, some five or six thousand people built forty years ago by Pandit Rudar Man.

meet

established at Atrauli

(38

),

(53).

Kuar and

Debi

I do not know when the tract was first marked off as a pargana ; but in the Ain-i-Ahbari ( third book ), the following particulars are given for Todar Mai's assessment of 1586 A,D.