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G.SE 286 12 KUN 400 de 0 0 sed and the revenue demand as recentiy assessed falls thus :- On cultivated us On assegged On whole area ... which on account of the character of the pargana and the nature of the soil, as above described, is less than in the other parganas of this tahsil, The census of 1869 shows the population to be as follows:- Rs. 0 14 21 011 2 08 DOO 8 Rs. 31 JP Hindus, agricultural non-agricultural Musalmans, agricultural ... non-agricatturat 16,397 10,985 743 1,269 . 97 19 95 Total 29,193 These figures inform us that the Musalmans are only 7 per cent. of the entire population -- a very low average indeed. There are 445 souls to the square mile, which also is something below the provincial average of 476. There are 5$ souls to each house. To each head of the agricultu- ral population thcre are acres 1-5 of cultivation, and acres 109 of assessed land, which shows that there is room for improvement. The pargana does not boast of a single road, but it has excellent water communication in the rivers described above. The only town of importance is Rámpur (q. V.), the residence of the taluqdar, the population of which is 2,217. Some five miles to the north of it is mauza Mathura, containing the remains of what was once a considerable fort. There are in this pargana no melas or fairs, or any bazar at which any- thing but the ordinary necessaries of life is sold. There are no public build- ings. The only public institution is the school at Rámpur, and the pargana is uninteresting to a degree. It, with North-Kundri, constituted pargana Kundri as formed by Saádat Khan, the Subahdar of Oudh, in 1739 A.D. It was made up of the following villages from the neighbouring parganas :- From pargana Basára 209 fillages. Sadrpur Tambaur and thus contained 535 villages. The new pargana was conferred in jágir upon one Mirza Ismail Beg alias Shekhzáda Wálájáh; but it was resumed soon after, and the original zamindars were not again interfered with. The name Kundri is derived from "kundar," which means land lying between two streams, whether those streams are part of the same river or belong to two distinct rivers. In the beginning the inhabitants were Bhars, Kurmis, and Paghubansis, and the local tradition has it that 680 years ago two brothers, Bál and Sál (or Syál), came from their native town Řaika in the Jummoo territory and drove out the Bhars, who, under their leaders Kapur Dhar and Sárang Dhar, were ravaging the country. Bál and Sál, his brother, took possession of the district, and they divided it, Bál taking the northern parts and Sál the southern. The descendants of both are extant ged 39 Sailuk 149 > 1 T 39 . 168