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 40 Bigvấn 40 Aurangabad Jahángirabad Mahrájnagar Mallápur 44 po 2,649 SIT 355 CHAPTER II. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. Towos --Principal staples-Agricultural operations-Klaríf and rabi crops - Sugarcade Cotton-Poppy-Indigo. Silk filatures-Kachhiána crops-Cultivated fruit treen- Batái-Condition of the people-Wages-Irrigatioy-Reuts--Interest-Prices-Famjues -Fisheries--Manufactures - Ronds-Weights and measures. Towns and villages.--There are 235 towns and villages in the district; their average area is 609 acres, or something less than a square mile, the provincial average being 619 acres. Chief towns with their population.- Of these the chief with their popu- lations, as given by the Census of 1869, are as follows:-- Sitapur 5,780 Bári Khairabad 3,042 15,677 Magwan 1,069 Rámkot 1,977 Mahmudabad 6,312 Hargám 2,832 Palgtepur 6,127 10,890 Rámpur Mathura 2,217 2,098 Sadrpur 2,109 Bansura 2,822 Misrikh 2,113 7,308 Nímkhár 2,807 2,640 8,000 2,003 Kutub agar 2,256 Seota 9,428 Bihat 2,058 4,046 Barágaon 2,068 Tambaur 3,014 Maholi 1,676 These towns have all been described separately ; suffice it to say here that Khairabad is the fifth largest city in the province, and that Hargám and Manwán possess a special interest for the antiquarian. The former is believed by the inhabitants to be the city of king Bairát where the Pándavas spent the thirteenth year of their exile ; and the lattor, formerly known as Manpur, is said to be the Mainpur of the Mahabharat, in the neighbourhood of which Arjun, the third Pándava, was slain by his son Babar Báhan. One mile from the town is the village of Ranuápára, "or the place of the battles," and here it was that the son killed the father, Láharpur is famous as being the birth-place of the celebrated Rája Todar Mal, Principal staples. The principal staples of Sitapur resemble those of the greater part of Upper India, and are as follows Average price during last Acres. five years. Wheat 165,003 18 sers 16 cli. per. Re. Barley 95,003 Juár 70,000 95,000 Sugarcane 15,000 Bájra 52,000 Oil seeds 30,000 Rice $1,000 603,008 .. 400 PR I.. ... 100 re. 1er ... . 33 31 31 20 25 12 10 1 90 9 Grana 2 23 .. le. 10
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