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At annexation 301 villages were included in the pargana under summary settlement. These 301 villages are now demarcated as 135 villages In the recent reonly, the remainder being recorded as dakhili villages. arrangement the pargana received 49 mauzas from Pargana Pachhimrath, and six mauzas from pargana Tanda, so that it now consists of 190 vilThe Government revenue is Es. 63,085, lages separately demarcated. being at the rate of Re. 1-9-6 per arable acre. For the slight alteration of boundaries effected recently see the table given There are now only 181 villages.
in article Fyzabad.
When the Bhars held the country they are said to have managed this portion of district from their fort at Pali alias Sarae Dula, and the pargana was then called "Pali" after the fort. Afterwards when Anup Sah, an officer of the Government, came to settle the boundaries of the parganas he found that there were two parganas known by the name of Pali, of which one was near Sultanpur. He therefore re-named this pargana " Sirwa Pali" (Sirwa being a village adjacent to P^li), both of which villages possess a certain local interest as sacred bathing places. About 1170 Fasli, Roshan Ali Khan, the Chief of Hasanpur, in the Sultanpur district, acquired a large portion of this pargana, and made his local head-quarters at Amsin, where he built a fort, and whence he managed his This fort being the strongest and best fortified place in the' neightaluqa. bourhood was afterwards used by the revenue officers of the native Government, and from it the pargana derived its present name.
To the north of the pargana runs the fine river Sarju alias Gogra, which separates the district from Basti zila. To the south there is a small river Madha, which flows into the Biswi nadi at Karampur and Chiontipara, Pargana Akbarpur. The latter disgorges itself into the Gogra at Shahrozpur, Pargana Maunath Bhanjan in zila Azamgarh. The river Madha at the driest seasons is often devoid of water. It takes its rise in the Bara Banki district from a jhil at mauza Basorhi. Further east, at Akbarpur, this small stream assumes the name of " Tons."
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JMls and Tanks. There is known by the name
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a considerable jhll at Atraura, which reser-
Achhna, and it discharges its superfluous water into the Gogra at Tanda. Besides this there are jhils of considerable size atMahda, Bhadona, Dumaha, Gauhania, Durg^pur, Bhadanli, Mednipur, Deora, Jijjwat and Darwdn. There are some 1,216 jhils and tanks of sorts The pargana is well covered with timber as a rule, the in the pargana. mango, bamboos, and the fig tribe being amongst the trees most commonly voir
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seen.
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Jungles. In former times there were five great jungles called Hardi the village of that name), Qazipur-Guriir, Tikri, Khichhalwa, and Chandardip. Of Hardi two-thirds is still uncleared, Qazipur has been given in grant to Umanda Singh, Barwar, and of this more than two-thirds has been brought under cultivation. .Tikri. This jungle has been made over in grant to Dalthamman Singh, Barwfc The name of the grant is Gangapur, and half of it has already been cultivated. Khichhalwa was granted to Raghubar Singh and Ramdin Singh, Barwars, and half has been put (after
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