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MURADNAGAR-MURBAD.

from Unao town, and 19 from Safipur, on the Hardoi road. Said to have been founded about 300 years ago by Murád Sher Khán, after whom the place is named. Population (1881) 4149, namely, 2945 Hindus and 1204 Musalmáns, residing in 50 brick and 930 mud houses. Bi-weekly market, and 3 annual religious fairs ; vernacular school

Murádnagar.–Village in Meerut (Merath) District, North-Western Provinces. Distant from Meerut city 18 miles south-west, and a station on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway. Population (1881) 4393, namely, Muhammadans, 2487, and Hindus, 1906. Founded 300 years ago by Mirza Muhammad Marád Mughal, whose mausoleum still exists. Large sarái built by founder; school, police station, postoffice. A weekly market is held every Tuesday.

Murarái.--Village in Murshidabad District, Bengal; from which the greater part of the áman rice crop, almost exclusively produced in the Rárh or western half of the District, is exported to Calcutta. Lat. 24° 27' 15" N., long. 87° 54' E. Murarái is a station on the East Indian Railway, distant from Calcutta (Howrah) 155 miles.

Murassapur. — Town in Partábgarh (Pratápgarh) District, Oudh; 4 miles from Mánikpur, on the road from that place to Rái Bareli. Population (1881) 1527, namely, 1013 Hindus and 514 Musalmáns. Adjoining this village is the bázár of Nawabganj, a fourishing grain mart, the annual sales at which amount to an average of £3300. Large fair on the occasion of the Dasahara festival, attended by about 30,000 people. Cotton-printing is carried on to a considerable extent. Government school.

Murbád. — Sub-division of Thána District, Bombay Presidency. Area, 351 square miles, containing 171 villages. Population (1872) 57,203 ; (1881) 63,934, namely, males 32,842, and females 31,092, occupying 10,715 houses. Hindus number 61,814; Muhammadans, 1640; and 'others,' 480. The people are mostly Thákurs, Kolís, and Maráthás. Land revenue (1882), £9027. This Sub-division lies in the east of the District; most of it is very hilly, and fairly wooded. It is difficult of access, and suffers from the want of means of exporting its produce. The water supplied by wells is fairly good, but scanty, The climate is oppressive though not unhealthy; after the rains, however, it is feverish. Of the 351 square miles, 10 are occupied by the lands of alienated or part-alienated villages. The remainder contains 127,495 acres of cultivable land, 16,498 acres of Government forests, 61,072 acres of public pastures and forest lands, 7875 acres of grass, and 4820 acres of village sites, roads, ponds, and river-beds. Of the total area of the Government villages, 217,760 acres, alienated land in Government villages occupied 341 acres. In 1880-81, of 101,691 acres, the total area of occupied land, 50,272 acres were follow. Of the