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 BAJ? WAN^BAR WANT.

i8o

^2843, or

average incidence,



2s.

8^d. per acre of total area.

IS.

10,244 males and 7246 females. the agricultural population

among

Number

pargands.

one

8|d. per acre of cultivated area,

Population (1881) 17,490, namely, The percentage of females to males is

Oudh

lowest in any of the

tlie

Five village schools, including

of villages, 69.

for girls.

Barwan. The

—Town

in

Hardoi

District,

Oudh on

the right bank of the

13 miles west of Hardoi, and 19 miles east of Fatehgarh. fort was destroyed on the re-occupation of the country after the

Garra

river,

Mutiny.

Barwan

now an

is

insignificant village of

a population (1881) of 1552.

has but

It

little

216

mud

trade of

its

huts, with

own, but

considerable quantities of cotton, grain, timber, hides, and sugar pass

down

the Garra from Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Anupshahr, and Pilibhit,

Cawnpur, Mirzapur, and Benares. Government school. under the Deputy Bhi'l (Bheel) Agency of It lies north of Khandesh, on the left bank of the Central India. Narbada (Nerbudda) river, between lat. 21° 41' and 22° 9' n., The country abounds in and long. 74“ 29' and 75° 22' E. fine timber and is well watered by mountain streams, but only

on

way Barwani.

to

their

partially

56,445

— State

Area,

cultivated.

1362

square

(mostly Bhils), distributed in

i

miles;

town and

population

299

(1881)

villages,

and

occupying 10,216 houses; number of persons per square mile, 41

Of

'4.

Hindus number 44,818; Muhammadans, 381; Christians, 9 and aboriginal tribes, 8605. Revenue,

the total population,

2632; Jains, The Chiefs of this State are Sesodia Rajputs of the about 3,000. Udaipur (Oodeypore) family, who separated from the parent stock Their history is enveloped in obscurity. about the 14th century.

According to in the

nth

local tradition, they settled

century.

Paras

Ram,

on the banks of the Narbada

the 15th in ascent from the present

opposed the advance of the imperial armies on Malwa, and was away prisoner to Delhi, where he consented to embrace Muhammadanism, on condition of his being permitted to return to his ancestral On his return, he retired into seclusion, and was succeeded by State. chief,

carried

his

son Bhim Singh, who erected a Muhammadan tomb over his may be seen to this day, at Awasgarh.

father’s

remains, which

Scattered remains of

ancient

prosperity

forts,

towns, and irrigation works testify to the

of the State.

From

the

beginning

of

the

last

Their century the power of the chiefs of Barwani gradually declined. country, originally of considerable extent, was devastated by the Marathas, and at length only a in length, with the lowlands

on

strip

of the Sdtpura range, 80 miles

either side,

remained to them.

did not, however, become tributary to any of the

Malwa

They

chiefs.

In

i860, owing to the incapacity of the then chief (Jaswant Singh), the State was taken under British

management, and so remained

till

1873,