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 MAH 405 pargaua. The tarái above mentioned does not require irrigation at all as it is green throughout the year, the water lying close to the surface, Elsewhere the greatest depth at which water is found is thirty feet. The acreage is thus divided- Cultivated Culturable 4.4 711 Acreg. 69,285 10,939 Total 70,224 assessed ve I. 11 $ Muáfi 146 Barren 12,727 12,873 unassessed. Total 83,097 The revised assessment is Rs. 1,13,468, which gives the following incidence Rs. ..+ 18 On cultivation >> assessed area » total aroa bok 1 IB 4 1 9 10 t 5 10 23 > . The population of the census of 1869 was as follows:- Aindus, agricultural non-agricultural Musalmans, agricultural non-agricultural 10 13 ees eee I pe 21 88,312 23,069 6,340 6,047 ... 444 27 090 Total 73,768 and these live in 15,043 houses. There are 567 souls to the square mile, the highest pargana average in Sitapur, and, with the exception of pargana Bilgram in Hardoi, the highest in the Sitapur Division. The Musalmans are seventeen per cent of the entire population. Each house has 49 occupants, for each bead of the agricultural population there are about one and one-third acres of cultiva- tion, and one and two-thirds acres of assessed land. The pargana is of a date subsequent to Todar Mal's famous land settle- ment, not having been constituted as such until the reign of Jahángír, who is said to have formed it out of 250 villages of pargana. Fatehpur. In course of time the taluqdars increased their estate by 78 villages, which, with 100 belonging to petty zamindars, made up the number to 4:28. At survey operations 252 of these 428 were transferred to neigh- bouring parganas, and 93 villages of other parganas were included in this, thus leaving 269, the present number. These 269 villages have been demarcated into 197 townships, of which the Mahmudabad taluqdar owns 125. It may be noted that these Shekh taluqdars are known as Khánzádas, and that the Rája of Mahmudabad represents the younger branch of the family. His father got the title of rája in 1850 A.D., and Government 52
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