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 MOH 509 brated all over the district for a rare combination of bodily and mental vigour, and to whom I am under considerable obligations for the intelli- gent and even learned assistance he afforded me in collecting materials for this report He has retired from the management of his estate, which is held by his grandson, Rája Jagmohan Singh. MOHANLALGANJ Pargana* -Tahsil MOHANLALGANJ-District LUCK- NOW.—The pargana of Mohanlalganj is one of the two into which the tahsil of this name is divided; it takes its name from a large ganj built by the Taluqdar, Rája Káshi Parshád. It is situated to the south-east of Lucknow, with which it is connected by two good unmetalled roads, The most northern of these runs east through the pargana to Sultanpur, the capital town of a neighbouring district. It passes through the bazar of Goshainganj and skirts the old pargana towns of Ametbi and Salem- pur. The point where it enters the pargana is about six miles from Luck- now. The other road runs south-east from Lucknow to Rae Bareli, hat has not much of its course in this pargana, for shortly after passirg through the tahsil station of Mohanlalganj, it reaches the pargana of Nigohán Sissaindi. There is also a third road which connects Gosháin- ganj with Mohanlalganj and continues south, joining the Lucknow and Cawnpore imperial road at Bani bridge on the river Sai. These roads are unmetalled, but are kept in good repair and bridged throughout In addition to this, a system of country roads has been projected which is to connect all the principal bazars with each other. The pargana is bounded on the west by the parganas of Bijnaur and Lucknow, on the north by the district of Bara Banki--from which it is separated by the river Gumti, on the east by the Rae Bareli district, and on the south by its fellow-pargana of Nigohán. It is compact and square-shaped, and contains an area of 200 square miles. Its greatest length from its northernmost corner on the Gumti to its'southernmost, where the boundary line between Nigohan and Mo- hanlalganj ends, is fifteen miles, and its average breadth is twelve miles. Its population is 1,13,659 or 568 to the square mile. Of this 9-8 per cent is Musalman and 90-2 per cent. Hindu. The proportion of barren land in the district is large, being so much as 31:6 per cent. This is due to úsar (barren) plains, which cross it from east to west, running through the centre of the pargana. The pargana is drained by a line of jhals that commences with the large Kurála jhíls in Hulás Khera, and takes a south-easterly direction towards Nagrắm and by the Loni stream, which rising in a jhil near Parahta flows, east and joins the Gumti near Salempur; all the northern parts are drained by the Gumti itself. The height at this point above mean sea level is 372 feet. The country along the Gumti is rough and broken, alternating with sandy tracts and wide ravines, and lowering as it approaches the bed of the river. But little irrigation is carried on from this river. In all other respects the country is fertile and well wooded. Its jhíls, with seasonable rains, afford an ample supply of water. Wells can everywhere 65
 * By Mr, H. E. Batte, Assistant Commissioner.