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 486 MAN Its area is 69 square miles, of which 46 are cultivated, and the acreage is thus distributed Acres. 040 Cultivated land ... Culturable land 29,028 6,074 1 I. Total 34,102 assessed. 2,476 497 . Rent-free Barren 44 .. Total . 9,978 Unessessed Total area 34 44,076 The incidence of the revised assessment is as follows :- DO 100 po On cultivation 88Bessed Ares 1) total area ce ... to 20 7 1 10 8 1 5 10 The population numbered 30,653 at the Census of 1868, and may be divided thus : Hindus, agricultural Ditto, non-agricultural ... 18,462 10,268 ap 194 Total 19. 28,720 0. II Musalmans, agricultural Ditto, non-agricultural 265 1,068 I. Total 900 1,888 The 30,563 live in 5,659 houses, There are 443 souls to the square mile and 5:3 to each house. The Musalmans are 6 per cent. only of the entire population, which is much below the average of the whole district. To each head of the agricultural population there are 1.5 acres of culti- vation and 19 acres of assessed land, the smallest average in the district. The pargana consists of 69 Hadbasti villages which are thus beld. taluqdari 39, zamindari 30. The Panwar Chhattris, whose chief men are Bhawanidín of Nílgáon, and Ganga Bakhsh of Saraura, sanad taluqdars, own 65 villages. Two are held by a Musalman family, and two, including Manwán Khas, by the qánúngoes. The Panwars are said to have come from Gwalior at the close of the 16th century in king Akbar's reign, under the chieftainship of three brothers --Malhan Deo, Phúl Deo, and Mal Deo. They invaded and seized Itaunją and Mahona in the Lucknow district, and Saraura Nílgáon, of Sitapur, and, with the exception of Mahona. which was confiscated for complicity in the rising of 1857, their descendants still hold these estates. Mál Deo's taluqa was divided by the two brothers-Binda Dás and Hari Das—in the third generation from him, the former taking Saraura, the lat. ter Nilgáon,