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NIGIIASAN PARGANA-NIGOINA 299 Classified according to religion, there were in 1881-Hinclus, 239,268; Muhammadans, 29,025; and 'others,' 13. Number of villages, 385, of which 201 contain less than five hundred inhabitants. Government land revenue, £ 23,716. Nighisan tuhsil comprises the 5 parganús of Firozabád, Dhaurahra, Nighásan, Kháirigarh, and l’ália. In 1883-84 it contained 3 civil and 4 criminal courts, presided over by a tahsildar and 3 honorary magistrates; number of police circles (thinus), 2 ; regular police, 45 men; village watch or rural police, 670. Nighasan.-Pargani in Kheri District, Oudh. Bounded on the north by Khairigarh, from which it is separated by the river Sarju ; on the east by Dhaurahra; on the south by Bhúr, the Chauka river marking the boundary; and on the west by Pália. This purgand, which has only been recently constituted, forms part of the low plain between the Sarju and Chauka rivers. Along the banks of these rivers runs a broad fringe of tanii or jungle, consisting of khair, shisham, and gulúr trees, which is inundated every year during the autumnal rains. Between rises a long ridge of higher land, with a good loamy soil, forming a plain varying from 1 to 9 miles in width. The parrant is intersected by sotas or backwaters of the Sarju and Chauka; and is covered with narrow semicircular marshes known as bhagyar, which mark old riverchannels. The forests along the Sarju lagoon swarm with wild animals; and herds of wild hogs, deer, nilgái, and antelopes do great injury to the crops, and necessitate the constant watching of the fields, day and night. Tigers are seldom found; but leopards are frequently met with. Area of the pargani, according to the Revenue Survey Report (1875–78), 232 square miles, or 149,077 acres, of which 68,387 acres are returned as under cultivation, 63,423 acres as cultivable, and 17,267 acres as uncultivable waste. The reserved forest area amounts to 15,971 ac Government land revenue, 46546. The prevailing tenure is tálukdári, and 62 out of the 73 villages comprised in the parganá are owned by Chauhan Rajputs, who are also the greatest proprietors in the neighbouring pargana of Bhúr. Population (1869) 57.842; (1881) 67,245, namely, Hindus 61,807, and Muhammadans 5438. The population is scanty; and owing to the aversion with which the country is regarded by people belonging to other parts of Oudh, there is ample spare land, and tenures are extremely favourable to the cultivator. The only roads in the parganú are one from Pália on the east to Matera Ghát on the west, which is crossed at right angles at Balrampur, and one from Sirsí Ghát on the south to Kháirigarh on the north. Ferries are maintained at several points across the Chauka and Sarju rivers. Nigohán.- Pargana in Lucknow District, Oudh; bounded on the north by Mohanlalganj parganá, and on the south by the Sái river, which separates it from Unao District. This pargand is finely wooded