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 284 KUN det The population at the census of 1869 was as follows:- Hindu, agricultural non-agricultural Musalmans, agricultural non-agricultural II 40,020 23.795 3,643 2,126 > . Total .. EID 69,584 Rs. 1 OT O 13 5 010 7 ) and these live in 12,279 houses There are thus 422 souls to the square mile, and 56 to each house." The Musalmans are 83 per cent. of the entire population. To each head of the agricultural population there are 1-6 acres of cultivated land against 2 acres of the assessed area. The incidence of the revised jama is- On cultivation » málguzári total area The history of the pargana is given in a great measure under the heading of" Soutli-Kundri.” To the facts there recorded may be added that the greater part of the lands which constitute the present North-Kundri were included in that "Gur ka ilaqa" described under pargana Tambaur, and mentioned in the town histories of Seota and Mallápur. This explains why there are no masonry houses to be met with, and accounts for the non-cultivation of the sugarcane. There is not a single house of any pretension in the pargana. With the exception of the fair at Seota pone are celebrated throughout the pargana ; there are bazars held bi-weekly in that town, and at Malla- pur, Khánpur, Bainhaniáwán, Kundri, an insignificant place, and Thána. l'he pargana boasts of no architectural remains interesting either for the historian or the antiquary. The demarcated mauzas are 129, of which 66 are held on a taluqdari, and 63 on a zamindari tenure. The taluq dars are Ráo Muneshwar Bakhsh of Mallápur, Rája Amír Hasan Kħan of Mahmudabad, and Thákar Gumán Singh of Rámpur Mathura. An account of each of the two last mentioned is to be found under their respective parganas, Mahmudabad and South-Kundri. Ráo Muneshwar Bakhsh is a Raikwár like Gumán Singh, and his estate is an offshoot of the Baundi ráj in Bahraich, in which district as also in Kheri the rája has part of his pro- perty. His pedigree table is given as extending back for 11 generations to Ratan Singh. Of the 63 zamindari villages the principal estate is that of Bamhania- wán. This and Sikri Sipauli in Tambaur are the only Ragbubansi zamin. daris in the whole district, and the sole relics of the great Raghubansi raj which existed here prior to the Raikwár invasion. The present holders of Bamhaniáwán are 15th in descent from Birbal, who divided his estates between his two sons, Indar Ráe, the elder, taking this, and Khem Karan, the younger, taking Sikri Sipauli.