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BAJi WALA—BAR WAN. town

is

surrounded with a

179

Population under

fine wall.

thousand.

five

Travellers’ bungalow.

Barwala. 16'

— TahsU of

45" and 29° 36' 30"

Hissdr District, Punjab, lying between 29° and between 75° 47' 45" and 76° 4' 15"

N. lat.,

Area, 580 square miles; population (1881) 78,549, name!}', Hindus, 51,279; Muhammadans, 26,317; Sikhs, 677; and ‘others,’ 276; average persons per square mile, 128. Revenue of the tahsil, It contains one civil and one criminal court, presided over by E. long.
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the tahstlddr.

men



village

Barwala. the

Police circles {thdnds),

watchmen

— Town

tahsil

distant

2

strength of regular police, 35



{c/taufdddrs), 204.

in

18

Hissar District, Punjab, and head-quarters of miles

north-east of

Population

Hissar.

Surrounding ruins testily the former importance (1881) 3628. of this town, which is now merely a local centre of no commercial consideration.

Tahsili, police station, post-office.

who own the neighbouring Barwan. Pargand in Hardoi

Sayyids,

—

Principal inhabitants,

country. District,

Oudh



bounded on the

north by Saromannagar and Pali pargands, east by Bawan, south by

According to

Sandi, and west by Katidri pargands.

country was originally held by the Thatheras, expelled by the Sombansis.

Muhammadans



They

in

their turn

local tradition, the

who were

afterwards

gave way before the

but in the beginning of the 15th century. Raja Bar-

wan, grandson of the Sombansi chief

who had

fled to

the

Kumaun

was allowed by the Governor of Kanauj to resume possession of his grandfather’s domain, and to establish himself at Baburhia, the deserted capital of the Thatheras, which he re-named Barwan. For a time the country was held by two brothers, descendants of Raja Barwan, who refused to pay tribute, and resisted all attempts at coercion. Eventually they were persuaded to send their sons to Akbar’s Hills,

where they so distinguished themselves by military service in Deccan that the Emperor bestowed upon them a formal rent-free grant of the pargand, together with the title of Khan. The Sombansis have held Barwan uninterruptedly for 4J centuries, and are still in court,

the

possession of 68 out of the 69 villages which comprise the pargand. They have always given much trouble to the revenue authorities, and

were

until recent years notorious thieves

Barwan may be described

as

and

cattle-lifters.

a backward, roadless,

Physically,

and somewhat

inaccessible pargand, lying along both sides of the Garra river, between

the central hangar or high lands

along the Ganges and Rdmganga.

and the low-lying kachh country

To

the east the country consists

of a high irregular ridge of sand, sinking westward into a low and fertile marshy tract watered by winding streams and jhils, and over-

grown here and there with patches of dhdk jungle. Area, 53 square Government land revenue demand, miles, of which 33 are cultivated.