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BARI Pargana

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Bari District SiTAPtTE. ^Pargana Bari, which the town of Bari, is bounded on the north by Pargana Pirnagar, on the east by Pargana Mahmudabad, on the south by Pargana Manwan, and the west by the Sarayan river {vide Sitapur.) takes

its

name from

In shape

and

area

its

in acres

rectangular, the longest sides being the north and south, 125 square miles, of which 80 are cultivated. The detail

it is is

as follows:

is

Cultivated acres Culturable „ Rent-free „ Barren „

The

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50,309 11,699

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966

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16,2S5

incidence of the revised

jama

is

Es. As. P.

On On On

cultivated culturable total area

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The population numbers Hindus, agricultural „

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non-agricultural

50,337,

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and

is

5

7 10

2 10

thus distributed

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29,322 16,367

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45,689

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338

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3,310

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4,648

Total

Total

These

14

...

Musalmans, agricultural ... non-agricultural „

and these 50,337

1 1 1

live in 10,105 Bouses.

figures give the following averages:

402 individuals to the square

mile, 4'8 to each house.

The Musalmans are 9 per cent, of the entire population. To each head of the agricultural population there are If acres of cultivation and two There are 129 hadbasti villages which are thus acres of malguzari land. held: taluqdari 46; zamindari 83. i

There are no very marked physical features except on the west side, where the drainage into the Sarlyan has cut up the villages bordering on The banks of this stream are steep; its banks to a considerable extent. and irrigation from it is unknown. along it, found are The lands no tarai only high road through the pargana is the metalled road from Lucknow There to Sitapur, which runs within two miles to the east of Bari Khas. is a cross country road to Misrikh, which crosses the Sarayan at Dhaurahra

Ghdt.

There are no melas or fairs in the pargana. The bazars are six in number, as follows: Bhandia, Incha Khera, Mirzapur, Bari Tirsoli, Turain at these nothing but the ordinary necessaries of life are to be purchased. There are no manufactures peculiar to the pargana, nor any special agricultural product, mines or quarries.

Irrigation is plentiful from general character of the soil is good. here exist; water is fetund at a depth not exceeding 20 feet from the surface of the earth, and kachcha wells stand well.

The

the

many jhils which