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 KHA 127 There are no manufactures, but a considerable trade is carried on in export of grain and bullocks, and there is some transit trade with Gola. ghất, in Naipál, in woollens, hides, honey, skins; salt and cotton goods being thc principal articles returned to the Naipalese. There are no towns deserving the name. Singáhi and Khairigarh are described else- where. There is not a bridge in the pargana ; only three brick-built houses, two temples to Mahadeo, and one small school where Urdu and Hindi are taught. The crops are principally rice and barley. An average outturn of un- husked rice would be 4 cwt. to an acre, in land not artificially watered or manured ; and after making allowance for produce injured by floods or wild animals, barley would not yield more than 3 cwt. Irrigation is not practised at all. Rents, except in rare instances, range between Re. 1-4-0 and Rs. 2-8-0 per acre, and are almost entirely paid in cash. A fair is held about the 17th of March, at the shrine of Pir Saádat Ab, in the forest adjoining the fort of Khairigarh, and is attended by about 6,000 people. Another gathering in honour of Debi assembles in May round hertemple at the village of Soátha, and musters on an average 4,000 worshippers. One curious fcature of Khairigarh is that the value of landed property has apparently fallen immensely during the last three hundred years fact which is quite contrary to the progress made everywhere around; and as the pargana is unique in this respect, the matter may be referred to at length. The total area of the revenue-paying portion of the pargana is 146,592 bíghas, or 91,620 acres, of which 57,930 bighas are cultivated, and 88,662 are not. Now the actual rents paid in 1274 F., the year of village survey, were Rs. 53,741, exclusive of mesne profits--a mere trife—and the average assets of the last five years are only Rs. 50,352. Therefore the actual rental appears to average only Re. 0-13-6 per bigha. According to the Kín-i-Akbari the area of the pargana was 43,050 bíghas, and the revenue was Rs. 45,233, or Re. 1-0-9 per bígha. I give in tabular form the anount and rates of revenue paid in a number of parganas in Oudh r's time, as also what is now aid, and some very remarkable con- clusions may be deduced therefrom. It would be hardly credible that the rents given in the Atn-i-Akbari were correct, if the traditions of the par- gana, and other facts to be mentioned, did not quite agree with that work. in ACCORDING TO A IN-I-AERARI ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT SETTLEMENT. Pargada. Rate per Area in bígbas. Revenue detband. bigha. Area in bighas. Retente demand. Rate per bigha. Rs. 2. p. 1 9 0 0 0 5 4 146,692 531,791 Rg. 49,633 2,55,011 Rs. a. p. 06 4 078 OP Khairigarh Kheri Biswan Garb Qila Nawa Dhaurahira, Barwar Khairabad Láharpur 43,050 260,168 144,321 15,811 135,919 159,072 208,288 Rs. 45,258 81,504 48,732 12,246 88,634 54,031 75,512 0 12 5 097 225,801 645,600 1,35,607 3,71,669 10. 0 10 6 050 0 5 9 . 09 0 10 O JO 2 6 G 400