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 KAK 105 ditto 1944 58.6 ditto ditto from which it is separated by the Nagwa nadi, sometimes also called the Loni. It contains only one great town, that of Kákori, which has a popu- lation of 8,221. The only other large villages are Amethi-Salímpur, which has a population of 1,102, and Jaliámau-Salímpur, with 1,284. The population of the whole pargana is 31,729, or 530 to the square mile, but this is doubled for the cultivated area, on which it falls at the rate of 1,059. Of this population- 80-6 per cent. is Hiodu, is Muhammadan, is agricultural. is non-agricultural. In its proportion of Muhammadans it stands highest amongst the parga- nas of the district. Agriculturally, this pargana is very similar to Bijnaur. It is crossed by the same úsar plains, which stretch from the latter pargana through this, and extend into Mohán Aurás. Thirty-eight per cent of the pargana is thus rendered unculturable, and the amount of culturable is very low. The average area of cultivators' holdings is about the same as in Bijnaur, being not much more than three acres per family, and the rents vary from Rs. 5-5 to Rs. 3-14, the Brahmans and Chhattris, as usual, paying the least. But this account does not include the Káchhis, who in this pargana pay Rs. 7-14 per acre, or Rs. 2-0 more than in Bijnaur. The revenue falls at Rs. 2-4 per cultivated' acre, Re. 1-15 per málguzári, which includes culturable, and Re. 1-3 on the whole area. The amount of irrigation is fair, amounting to 44 per cent., half of which is from jhíls. There are no rivers or streams running through it, but the pargana is drained by the Baita, a Malihabad stream, which bounds it on the north side, and the Nagwa, which flows along its south- west boundary. The depth at which water can be met below the surface is twenty feet, and depth of water seven feet; in this also not differing from Bijnaur. The water of a large proportion of the wells also is brackish. The pargana was formerly of more importance. It was the thoroughfare for the traffic between Lucknow and Cawapore, which passed along the unmetalled road that at present leads to Mohán, and leaving this town a little to the north, crossed the Sai a few miles below Neotini, and taking a southerly direction, passed through Nawabganj in the district of Unao. This road from Lucknow was formerly embellished by spacious saráes, ganjes, and handsome bridges and wells , built by the wealthy Lucknow officials to perpetuate their names and memories. The bridges and many of the wells remain, but the ganjes, deserted by the traffic which now passes south of it by the straighter road to Cawnpore which goes by way of the Bani bridge, lie in ruins. The first of these ganjes on the road was Saadatganj, built by Nawab Saádat Ali Khan in A.D. 1800; then comes Fatehganj, built by Asif-ud-daula, the fourth Nawab of Oudh, to celebrate his victory over the Ruhelas. The place is still standing, but is not used as