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The

area of this pargana was 263 square miles 8 villages were added 272. The population consists of 54,843 Hindus, and 9,083 Musalmans, being at the rate of 475 to the square mile, according to the census of 1869.

to

it,



and there are now

Only 129 square miles are cultivated the soil, products and do not differ from those throughout the district.

cultiva-

tion,

AKOBBJ.—Pargana Mauranwan— Tahsil Purwa—District

—

TJnao. large village eleven miles south-east from Purwa, and thirty-one from Unao, It is near a lake, and half a mile west of the road, leading from Unao to

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Bareli. It is alleged to have been founded by Chhattri, from Dharanagar.

Akbar Singh a Manwar

is 4,121, of whom 34 are Musalmans. There are very in this ancient town there is no temple, mosque, or

The population

many

Chhattris



masonry building.

ALAMN AGAR* Pargana. — Tahsil SHAHABAD^DisfWci Hardoi,—A

wild

backward pargana, in the extreme north of Tahsil Shahabad, in the Hardoi district. The Sukheta stream on the west, and the Bhainsta on the On the south it is east, separate it from parganas Shahabad, and' Pihani. bounded by pargana North Sara. On the north and north-west it touches th« districts of Kheri and Shahjahanpur. Its greatest length and breadth are ten and a half and nine miles. Only 19 of its 59 square miles are cultivated.

Four

of

its

forty-three villages are

uninhabited jungles, the property of

Government. The surface is level. To the east and west, along the banks of the Sukheta and Bhainsta, spread almost unbroken belts of dhak (Butea frondosa) and thorn jungle that teem with nil-gae, wild hogs, hares, pea-fowl, grey partridge, and bush quail. The cost and labour of guarding his crops from the depredations of wild animals is a heavy drag on the cultivator, so that wherever the neighbouring jungle is thickest, there rents are lowest. Down the middle of the tract, mid-way between the two streams, a partial clearance has been made, and is extending.

The proportion of light and sandy soil (6Mr) is far lower than anywhere else in the district, being only 14 per cent, of the cultivated area. Good loam (dumat), and clay, (matidr) abound. The water-supply is copious Nowhere else in the district is so large a portion, 59 per cent, of the cultivated area, watered. Five-sixths of the irrigation is from wells, and the The Bhainsta dries up too rest from tanks, ponds, and the Sukheta. soon to be of much use, except to moisten the fields along its banks and by In two-thirds of the percolation to raise the water level in the wells. villages large kachcha wells, worked with bullocks and a leathern bag, are dug for from Rs. 2 to 8, and last from two to four years. In three villages lever wells with an earthen pot (dhenJdi) are used, which cost from Rs. ^ The soil is especially adapted to to 5, and have to be renewed each year. of the Rosa Factory at nearness the and sugarcane; of 'growth -

the



By A.

Haxington Esq.,

B. A., c.

s.,

Assistant Commissioner,