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 PAL The number of inhabitants is 28,087, or 385 to the square mile. Hin- dus to Muhammadans are 25,578 to 2,509, males to females 15,243 to 12,841, and agriculturists to non-agriculturists 20,298 to 7,789. More than a fourth of the Hindus are Brahmans; Chamárs and Chhattris each constitute a ninth ; Muráos a twelfth ; Kahárs, Ahírs, and Kísáns predo- minate in the remainder. There are no important fairs. Village schools have been established at the following places--Pali, Sahjanpur, Babarpur, Madnapur, Sarbe, and Lakmápur. The only market is at Pali on Sundays and Thursdays. For some account of the past history of the pargana see Pali town. The qánúngos say that Pali has been a pargana for seven hundred years-- i.e., since Shahab-ud-din's conquest. It is probable that if not so ancient as this, its formation into a revenue subdivision dates at least from the reign of Humáyún. In the A'ln-i-Akbari it is mentioned as containing 56,156 bighas, and as paying 12,061,230 dáms of revenue, and 36,488 dams are set down as jágír. No fort is mentioned, but there was a garrison of 30 troopers, 1,000 foot-soldiers. Ananas (1) are entered as the zamindars. Pali originally contained the whole of what are now parganas Shahabad and Pachhoha, and a part of parganas Saroman- nagar and Katiári. PALI*-Pargana PALI---Tahsil SHAHABAD--District HARDOI.--(Popula- tion 5,122.) The chief-town of pargana Pali lies in latitude 27°30' north, longitude 79° 44' cast, and is pleasantly situated on the right bank of the river Garra on the old route from Fatehgarh to Sitapur, nine miles south- west from Shahabad, 18 miles north from Sándi, 20 north-west from Har- doi, 19 north-east from Farukhabad, 64 west from Sitapur and 90 north- west from Lucknow. Its general appearance was thus described by Gene- ral Sleeman twenty-three years ago S “The road for the last half way of this morning's stage (along the Sandi road) passes over a good doomuteea soil. The whole country is well cultivated and well studded with fine trees, and the approach to Palee at this season (January) is very picturesque. The groves of mango and other fine trees, amidst which the town stands on the right bank of the Gurra river, appear very beautiful as one approaches, particularly now that the surrounding country is covered by so fine a carpet of rich spring crops. The sun's rays falling upon such rich masses of foliage produce an infinite variety of form, colour, and tint, which the eye delights to repose."---Sleeman's Tour, Vol. II., page 40. The Garra here is fordable at Rájghát for about five months of the year. A ferry is kept up at other times. The river has shifted a good deal northwards away from the town within the last forty years. Local tradition describes the circumstances of its foundation, but does not furnish any clue to the derivation of the name. The tract of coun- . By Mr.A. H. Harington, C.S., Assistant Commissioner.