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 22 NIG .60 14 re PA ya PU! 101 gana, it is crossed at right angles by a road from Sirsi Ghát, on the south to Khairigarh on the uorth. There are no other roads. The gháts or ferries on the Chauka are at Margha, Sirsi, or Lálhojhu and Pachperi, a hamlet in Munra, and have been mentioned in the Bhúr report. On the Sarju there are fords at Dudhua, Khairigarh, Dukherwa, and Shitabi, where the Sarju and Kauriála meet. The arca and popula- tion of the whole pargana is here given- Number of villages... 73 Cultivated area without fallow 66,124 Culturable area including fallow.... 64,891 Barren and revenue-free 16,045 Total 1,47,160 Population 54,683 Pupulation per square mile 239 The one grant which las now been partly cultivated, and is held by Ráo Tula Rám, lies on the river Chauka. It has an area of 3,252 acres, and a population of 159 persons. This grant belonged at first to a Eura- sian, Mr. Taylor, but was sold in execution of a decree of the civil court, and purchased by its present owner. The seven tracts of forest along the river Sarju have an area of 15,971 acres. In these forests there are a few huts here and there inhabited by herdsmen tending cattle, and boatmen taking logs of timber down the Sarju river, but the population is fleeting and inconsiderable, has never been enumerated, and is not known. For the whole pargana then the figures are as follows:-- 200 . 100 pv Total area, Population, Population per square mile, The 78 yillage. 146,160 54,689 239 30 1 grant 1.0 8,252 159 38 » foresc 15,971 19 Not known. 1 Not known, 165,383 54,842 212 But as the forest will never be brought under cultivation, the forest area is to the settlement officer the same as barren land, and is excluded from all calculations about the relation of population to the cultivated and cul- turable areas. For purposes of assessment, the population per square mile is not 212 but 239. There are no data for giving exact details of the number of the various castes, as the pargana has been newly constituted since the census tables were compiled. Approximately I estimate them as follows: Muhammadans... 2,300 Brahmans 3,800 Chhattris 1,400 . It. It 900