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40 MURTAZAPUR TOIVA-MURIVARA. 3; regular police, 81 men ; village watch (chaukidárs), 274. Total revenue, £ 36,869, of which £30,426 is derived from land. Murtazápur.–Town in Amráoti District, Berár, and a station on the Nagpur line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway; situated in lat. 20° 44' N., and long. 77° 25' E., 30 miles west-south-west of Amráoti town. Population (1881) 4887. Large quantities of cotton are sent here from Karinja and other places for carriage to Bombay. Murtazápur is the head-quarters of Murtazápur tahsil. Travellers' bungalow. Murwárá.—Northern tahsil or Sub-division of Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) District, Central Provinces. Area, 1176 square miles; number of towns and villages, 513; houses, 40,749. Total population (1881) 157,716, namely, males 79,473, and females 78,243. Average density of population, 134 persons per square mile. Of the total area of the tahsil, 157 square miles pay neither revenue nor tribute, leaving the assessed area at 1019 square miles. Of these, 520 square miles are returned as under cultivation, 246 square miles as cultivable but not under tillage, and 253 square miles as uncultivable waste. The total adult agricultural population (male and female) was returned in 1881 at 67,264, or +265 per cent. of the whole population of the tahsil Average area of cultivated and cultivable land available for each adult cultivator, 7 acres. Total Government land revenue, including local rates and cesses levied on the land, £9427, or an average of 6 d. per cultivated acre. Total rental, including cesses, paid by the cultivators, £22,170, or an average of Is. 3 d. per cultivated acre. In 1883, Murwará tahsil contained i criminal and 2 civil courts, 3 police circles (thánás), and 11 outpost stations (chaukís), a regular police force numbering ini men, and a village watch of 374 (chaukidárs). Murwárá.---Town and municipality in Jabalpur District, Central Provinces, and head-quarters of Murwará tahsil ; situated in lat. 23° 51' N., and long. 80° 26' E., 57 miles north-east of Jabalpur city, on the road to Mírzápur. Murwárá, which in 1872 was a mere agricultural village with 2885 inhabitants, had by 1881 increased to an important commercial town, with a population numbering 8612, and composed of -Hindus, 7078; Muhammadans, 1155; Jains, 114; Kabirpanthis, 159; Satnamis, 26; Christians, 6; Pársís, 2 ; and aboriginal tribes, 72. Municipal revenue in 1882–83, £590, of which £535 was derived from taxation; average incidence of taxation, 15. 33d. per head. Murwára has now become an important mercantile centre, with a large trade in grain, oil-seeds, lac, hides, leather, ghi, iron, lime, piece-goods, salt, sugar, tobacco, and spices. The town contains a Government school; and the Kathná river is here crossed by two fine bridges, one on the northern road, and the other on the Jabalpur branch of the Last Indian Railway.