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KUN 287 Among the zamindari villages are now reckoned those which consti- tuted the taluqa of the Raja of Chahlári, a Raikwár, who rose in arms against the State in 1857, and was slain in the affair of Nawabganj in that year. His estate was confiscated, and the greater part of it bestowed on grantees among them are the relatives of Beni Mádho, the Bais chieftain of Jagatpur Tánghan in Baiswara, whose estates there were confiscated for complicity in the mutiny. Some members of the Chahlári family have received compassionate allowances in their ancestral villages, the policy of Great Britain like that of ancient Rome, having for its motto-- parcere devictis ac debellare superbos. The whole 129 villages are distributed thus :- 92 Rajput. 1 Kasathi. 26 Musalman, 1 Dhúsar Banika. i Brahusu. 1 Bhát or Bard. 7 Goveroment. KUNDRI SOUTH Pargana,Tahsil BARI~District SITAPUR. Under the present government there are two parganas of this name, to wit, North-Kundri and South-Kundri. It is with the statistics and features of the latter that we deal in the present article, but as the history of both is one and the same, it will be given here. South-Kundri contains 66 square miles, of which 40 are cultivated. In shape like an hour-glass, it is twelve miles in length, and three at its narrowest breadth, in the centre. On the west it is bounded by the Chauka, and on the east by the Gogra, which separates it from Bahraich. On the south it is over-lapped by that district and by Bara Banki, and on the north it is bounded by North-Kundri . Between and parallel to the two rivers abovementioned flow the smaller streams Ghagbar and Jasui, navigable during certain seasons of the year. Situated thus, the pargana is liable to frequent inundations, which often cause great injury to the crops as well as to the houses and cattle of the inhabitants, and on this account tlie revenue demand has been fixed at a rate which, lower than that in the rest of the talsil, is yet perhaps no more than the land can pay one year with another. It contains 39 demarcated villages, of which 27 belong to the Raikwár Taluqdar, Thákur Gumán Singh, of Rámpur Mathura, and eight, once be- longing to the rebel Rája of Chahlári, have been recently conferred on Rána Raghuráj Singh, son of Beni Mádho, the Baiswára chieftain, whose estatęs were confiscated for complicity in the mutiny. The remaining four villages belong to petty zemindars. The acreage of the pargana is as follows: acres. Coltivated Cultorable Moáti Barren 25,226 8,082 52 9,150 11 400 Total PUU 42,510 37