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 MOH 503 trict and Jagdispur of Sultanpur, on the east by Gaura Jámún of the district of Sultanpur, on the south by pargana Rokha Jáis of this district, and on the west by the Hardoi pargana. Its area is 80 square miles and its population 47,281, being at the rate of 591 per square mile. Of the soil 24,636 acres are cultivated, 5,925 fit for cultivation, and 20,334 are barren, The soil is more appropriated by taluqdars than by the zamindars; there being 40 villages owned by the former and 35 by the latter. The Govern- ment revenue is Rs. 54,165, being at the rate of Re. 1-12-4 per arable acre. The landed property is thus divided : T'aluqdari. Zamindari. Kanbpuria Other castes 40 0 27 8 ind 1. 40 35 Total The history of the Kanhpuria Chhattris may conveniently be given under this pargana which contains their earliest settlements. It is as follows by Mr. Millet, C.S.:- The only family which require any notice are the Kanhpuriae, whose ancestor, Parshád Singh, acquired possession of a large tract of country to the north-east of the district in Tilok Chand's time, These trace their descent from the celebrated Rishi Bharat Dwáj, and their blood is enriched by the piety of 83 generations of saints and ancho- rites. The birth of Kánk, their first Chhattri ancestor, is involved in much obscurity. The common tradition is shortly as follows :- Suchh, a saint of distinction, lived at Mánikpur in the reign of the great Mánik Chand. A fable of Brahmanical invention describes and accounts for his marriage with the daughter of that rája.* From this marriage two sons were born, one of whom turnod Brahman and the other Chhattri. The Chhattri was Kánh, the eponymous hero of his tribe, who married into at Bais family, abandoned Manikpur, where he had succeeded as his mother's heir to the throne of Manik Chand to his wife's relations, and founded the village of Kánhpur on the road from Salon to Partabgarh. The present tribe deity of the Kanhpurias is the Bhainsaha Rákshasa, (buffalo demon) to whom they offer one buffalo at every third Bijai Das mi, and another for every wedding or birth which has occurred in their chief's family since the last sacrifice. I regard this tradition as extremely important All the leading tribes of whose immigration there can be no doubt retain distinct legends of their former homes. Here it is admitted that the founder of the tribe in these parts was also the first of his people who was admitted into the Hindu caste system, as alliances, and to have trademitted the ráj and the Gharwár blood by eacb. The rája of Tiloi says a Bigen of Madiboli, The moral is tho same,
 * This princeea, the only daughter of Mánik Chend, seems to have contracted several