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 48 PAH-PAI There is no religious building in this pargana which particularly requires notice. The only fair is that held in Phágun on Shiuráttri in honour of Barkhandi Náth Mahadeo. Katra bazar is the only place in the pargana which has a population of over 2,000 PAILA Pargana-Tahsil LAKHťMPUR-District KHERI.---Pargaria Paila includes the old pargana of Karanpur which has lately been joined to it. It now contains 119 villages covering an area of 105 square miles. The general features and history of the two portions of the pargana--viz, para gana Paila proper and the old pargana of Karanpur, which were sepa- rately assessed, are as follows: Pargana Paila proper is bounded on the north by the old pargana of Karanpur, on the east by pargana Kheri, on the south by Pargana Basára, and on the west by parganas Kasta and Sikandarabad. It contains 59 regularly demarcated villages, comprising a total area of 32,910 acres or 51-42 square miles, with a population of 345 to the square mile: The cultivated area is 17,649 and the culturable and fallow 11,091 acres more, or a total assessed area of 28,740 acres, out of 4,170 acres. Of the unassessable area there are 910 acres under groves, and 32 acres still released as rent-free grants, which latter have now been separately assessed at Rs. 74. There are 4,243 cultivators and 3,419 ploughs, being 1:24 men and 5:16 acres of cultivation to each plough. Again, the percentage of the irrigated land is 32 from wells and tanks chiefly. The pargana is almost entirely free of jungle; it has much good average loain and clay soils; and in certain localities a good deal of wet land producing two crops a year. Owing to some feuds between Rája Lone Singh and Rája Anrudh Singh of Oel, several of the villages, Atwa, Shankarpur, &c., to the north of the pargana were destroyed and thrown out of cultivation since 1248-49 fasli, when Rája Lone Singh got these villages in his lease under the Huzur Tahsil. Many of these villages were in possession of the Rája of Oel at the time. According to Colonel Sleeman's account “Rája Lone Singh got the lease in March, 1840, and commenced his attack in May." The result was, a great fight occurred between him and the Oel rája on the Paila plain, and Lone Singh is represented to have been beaten back and lost some of his guns. The Rája of Oel eventually left the villages he held. These vil- lages are now held by several of the grantees, and are now only beginning to revive. In Atwa and Shankarpur and some others large areas are still waste, but rapidly are being brought under the plough. The soil iu these vil- lages is everywhere good. The largest jhíl is at the village of Kutwa; it is a long narrow deep jhíl, with high and sandy banks on both sides, which prevent the lands being irrigated from it. After the rains another jhíl is formed in the hollow of some low land lying between the villages ef Rasulpur and Kishanpur on one side, and Partábpur and Sajwán on the other side. At certain seasons much of the waste is available for irrigation, and the flooding from the jhíl adds much to the fertility of the adjoining lands. There are two streams,