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 MAN 485 The pargana opium are scarcely known, and sugarcane is very sparingly planted. Kan- kar is found at Mansurnagar. Fifteen of the villages are held in zamindari tenure; one is taluqdari and nine are imperfect pattidari. The Chauhéns hold four villages, the Chaudhri Gaurs six, the Gautams a half village, Sayyads four, Pathans three and a half, Brahmans four, and Káyaths two. One, a jungle, has been decreed to Government. The Government demand, excluding cesses, amounts to Rs. 11,128, and falls at Re. 1-13-5 per cultivated acre ; Re. 0-10-8 per acre of total area; Rs. 12-13-1 per plough; Rs. 2-6-5 per head of the agricultural, and Re. J-12-4 per head of the total population. is more sparsely populated than any in the district. It contains a population of only 6,286 or 242 to the square mile. Of these 5,965 are Hindus and 321 Mnhammadans. Pasis, Chamárs, and Ahírs in almost equal numbers make up nearly a half of the Hindu popula- tion. The Rajputs are only a sixteenth of the whole. Males to females are 3,437 to 2,849, and agriculturists to non-agriculturists 4,636 to 1,650. There are no markets or fairs. The only school is a village one, with an average of 43 pupils at Mansurnagar. The pargana is named from the little town of Mansurnagar. The ear- liest inhabitants, of whom tradition preserves the memory, were Thatheras, whose stronghold was at Simaurgarh, three miles north of Mansurnagar. At some uncertain period before the fall of Kanauj, the Gaurs, under the leadership of Kuber Sáh, expelled the Thatheras from Simaurgarh, and, it is said, from forty-one other strongholds, the most notable being Kalbaur in pargana Bawan. During the reign of Akbar, Rája Lakhmi Sen, Gaur, removed his headquarters from Kallaur to Simaurgarh, and built there on the ruins of the old Thathera castle) a large and lofty fort, the outer enclosure of which measured a mile each way. Towards the end of Akbar's reign the Gaurs of Simaurgarh became troublesome, and Nawab Sadr Jahan stormed their fort, and reduced them to obedience while the power of the Gaurs lasted. The present town of Mansurnagar was a little village called Nagar; Murid Khan, the grandson of Nawab Sadr Jahán, built a brick fort there. In 1702 A.D., Raja Ibádulla Khan, the converted Sombarisi, possessed himself of the whole jágir of the Píháni Sayyads, and rebuilt Muríd Khan's fort, and named the place Mansur- Dagar, after Nawab Mansur Ali Khan (Safdar Jang). In 1806 A.D., Rhe Mapsá Rám, Chakladar of Muhamdi, took some villages out of parganas Sara and Gopamau, and made them into pargana Mansurnagar. MANWAN Pargana*-Tahsil BÁRI— District SITAPUR.-- This pargana is bounded on the north by Bári, on the east and south by the district of Lucknow, and on the west by the rivers Gumti and Saráyan. 62
 * By Mr M. L. Ferrar, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.
 * By Mr M. L. Ferrar, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.