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 MAG--MAH 401 nesdays. The Government revenue is Rs. 21,864, and the rate per acre on an average is Re. 1-2-0. The tenure as follows: Villages. Acres. Taloqlari 12 4,418 Zimindari 8,543 lablari 6,523 8 31 19,484 The population consists chiefly of Brahmans, and it amounts to 16,188. This pirgana derires its name froin the principal village Magráyar, but the origin of the word cannot be ascertained. It was established as a pargana in the time of Akbar, and prior to annexation a tahsildar resided at Magráyar, and had charge of the whole pargana. The proprietary body are chiefly Káyaths and Brahmans. Of the architectural works there is but a temple in honour of Sri Mahadeo, built of stone by a banker, at a cost of nearly Rs. 50,000. This temple is in Bigalpur Kalán. MAGRÁYAR Pargana--MAGRÁYAR-Tahsil PurwA, District UNAO.- This town lies six nuiles south of the tahsil headquarters and cighteen miles cast of Unao. The soil is principally clay and loam, water fresh, site level. There is a school here for teaching Urdu and Nágri. The annual amount of sales at the bazar are about Rs. 3,000. The total population amounts to 1,190, of which 1,084 are Hindus and 106 Musal- mans. There are 139 mud-built houses and five of masonry; one mosque and five temples—four to Debi and one to Mahadeo. MAHADEWA Pargana--Tahsil BEGAMGANJ-District GONDA--This pargana is bounded on the north by pargana Gonda, on the south by the parganas of Nawabganj and Digsai, on the west by Gonda and Digsar, and on the east by qurgana Nawabganj. At settlement three villages were transfered to Nawabganj, and one village from paryana Guwárich, and eight from pargana Digsar were added, thus enlarging its area from 50,192 to 58,154 acres, or 89 square miles divided into 104 mauzas or town- ships. The land of this pargana which lies north of the Fyzabad and Gonda imperial road is high and called uparhár, and that to the south of the same road is low, and is known by the name of tarhár. The area of the pargana is thus divided :- Unculturable waste 4,248 acres or 8 per cent. Culturable ditto 21,290 Cultivated 29,810 1,416 13 yi or 38 or 52 Or 17 Groves 1) Total 100 56,764 Of the cultivated area 25 per cent. is Ist class or goind soil, 51 per cent. 2nd class or majhár, and 24 per cent. 3rd class or sand. The irrigated land is 11,265 acres or 40 per cent., and the unirrigated 18,545 acres or 60 per cent of the actual cultivation. The jungle grants cover 2,220 acres. The only river that traverses this pargana is the Tírhi. It takes its rise in the Chittor tank lying four miles south-east of Bahraich town, and after a tortuous course passes the villages of Khánpur in Guwárich pargana and Ránipur of pargana Mahadewa, and ultimately falls into thc Gogra at