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 NIG 27 NIGOHAN SISSAIŅDI Pargana * -Tahsil MOHANLALGANJ-District LUCKNOW.--The pargana of Nigohán Sissaindi lies between latitude 26°30 and 26°50', and is crossed by 81° of longitude. It is one of the two parganas into which the tabsil of Mohanlalganj is divided. Its area is seventy-two square miles. In shape it is oblong, with a length of from twelve to thirteen miles, and an average breadth of five. The Mohaudalganj par- gana lies on its north, and it is bounded on the south by the river Sai, which separates it from the district of Upao. It is traversed by two roads--one running from Rae Bareli along the north side of the pargana through Mohanlalganj to Lucknow, and the other from Sissaindi, lying at its south-west corner to Mohanlalganj. The pargana is finely wooded to the south and round the town of Nigo- hán, but to the north-west it is bare, and crossed by large barren plains. The country along the Sai is light and san ly, and also along the banks of the Bánk stream, which crosses the pargana obliquely from the north, and joins the Sai at a point to the south of Nigohán. This sandy land amounts to twenty per cent of the cultivation, and very much affects the fertility of the pargana. Except round the large villages, and in the south-west of the pargana, the cultivation is not so high as in the other parganas of the district. The Sai is the only river, and is little fitted for irrigation, which is carried on chiefly from small jhils and wells. The only large jhíls are at Sissaindi—where the water is almost unfailing--and Jabrauli. The cultiva- tion round the former village is specially řne. Water throughout the pargana can be met with at a distance of thirteen feet from the surface, and well-irrigation is more than ordinarily common, amounting to thirty- seven per cent. of the whole extent irrigated. The old pargana consisted of sixty-four villages, but by demarcation they have been reduced to fifty-seven, averaging an area of 805 acres each, The population is in density 517 to the square mile, and Musalmans amount to only 4-6 per cent of the whole. In this it stands lowest of any of the parganas in the district. The agricultural element is fifty-two per cent. This is also below the average, and is perhaps due to the presence of Brahmans, who are more than usually numerous in this pargana. Of the total area fifty-seven per cent is cultivated, and the population falls on this at the rate of 1,005 per square mile. The culturable is high, amounting to 34:19 of the whole, but 9,890 or forty-three per cent of this is under groves. What is left is situated towards the north of the par- gana, and being largely mixed with úsar, will not readily be broken up. Probably all that is worth much has been taken in hand. With the percentage of agriculturists somewhat less than in other par- ganas their average holdings are large; they amount to from three and a half to five acres. The rents are very equitable, and, as might be expected
 * By Mr. H. H. Butts, Assistant Commissioner.