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 NAW 9 Mufrad 44 38 791 Its area is seventy-nine square miles, or 50,479 acres, of which 32,266 acres are cultivated, 11,276 culturable, and 5,592 barren. The irrigated area, amounts to 9,691 acres, and the unirigated to 22,576. The river Kalyáni skirts the pargana on the north, and flows for about eight miles within its limits. There are about twelve villages on its banks. Water is met with at from six to twelve feet. The principal manufactures are sugar and cotton cloth. Nawabganj town has a considerable market. The metalled road from Lucknow to fyzabad passes through this pargana: also a road leading to Bahramghat, the great timber market. The railway traverses it, and it also contains the village of Bara Banki, in which is the civil station. The district post and registry offices, the head dispensary, the police stations, and the Government high school, are all at Nawabganj. There are two other village schools. The Government revenue amounts to Rs. 87,441 ; and the seventy-seven villages of this pargana are held as follows: Talagdari ... The population is returned as 62,832, being at the rate of 795 per square mile. The only villages having a populations of over 2,000 are Nawabganj and Masoli. The pargana has been known as such since the Nawabi. Out of the forty-four taluqdari villages twenty-five are held by Raja Farzand Ali Khan, of Jahangirabad, the rest are divided between several neighbouring landowners. NAWABGANJ-Pargana NAWABGANJ-Tahsil NAWABGANJ-District BARA BANKI.--Nawabganj, the headquarters of the tahsil and par- gana of the same name, lies in latitude 26° 55' north, longitude 81° 15. east, at a distance of seventeen miles east of Lucknow, 61 west of Fyzabad, and 22 south of Bahramghat. The civil station is situated at Bara Banki, a mile west of the town on some high ground sloping down to the Jamuriha—a small stream flowing between the two. The ground in its immediate neighbourhood is very barren, and cut up by a network of ravines. The Deputy Commissioner's kachahri, the offices of the assist- ant engineer, and the assistant opium officer, the jail, police lines, and a few bungalows constitute the station. The imperial road to Fyzabad after crossing the Jamuriha passes close by the town. The main street is broad and the houses on either side well built. A country house was built here by Nawab Shujá-ud-daula soine 100 years ago on the land taken from two villages, Rasúlpur and Faiz-ulla-ganj. The land was made nazúl and the town founded by Asif-ud-daula, but it was never of importance until Bara Banki became the headquarters of the district. The well-to-do Hindus are chiefly Baniárs and Sarawaks (if the latter can be called Hindus), who carry on a large trade in sugar and cotton. The public buildings are the tháda, Government school, three saráes, and a very commodious dispensary. The drainage is good, water plentiful, and climate remarkably healthy. The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway passes about half a mile to the north of the town, and the railway station, at which there is a junction, with the branch line to Bahramghat, is about a mile to the west of it.