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KUR 291 miles to the north of Kursi on the Mahmudabad road. The largest market in the neighbourhood is held here, and the yearly sales are said to amount to Rs. 66,000. The population of the village and ganj amounts to 4,240. Besides there are only three villages_Khingna, Bharauli, Arauri—that contain a population of over 1,000. The area of the pargana is eighty- nine square miles, and it contains ninety-one villages, averaging in area six hundred and twenty-five acres. The soil of the pargana is very good and fertile. The following figures will show how the cultivated land is made up = 78 per cent. is let class or lagm; 21 per cent. is 2nd class or clay. The culturable is thirty-five per cent., and lies chiefly to the north of the pargana whene population is very sparse. It is all of it good land, and will, when cultivators are brought up, quickly fall under the plough. Only 11:6 per cent. of its area is unculturable, and two-thirds of this is taken up by roads, village sites, and jhils. Irrigation is very fair; it amounts to sixty per cent., but so much as ninety- three per cent. of this is from jhils. Jhils lie thick through the northern parts of the pargana, and a great deal of irrigation is carried on from the Kalyáni river. But it is unlikely that only seven per cent of the irrigated lands is watered from wells. Water lies only seventeen feet from the surface, and nine feet of water lie in the wells. To the south of Kursi the pargana is very thickly peopled, and in great part by Muhammadans. With its clayey soil, and want of cultivators, the cultivation to thenorth of the pargana is poor, but to the south it is very fine. All the cercals are grown, and sugarcane and the Kachhi crops lie thick round the village, and very little of the ground is left uncultivated. Rents range from Rs. 4-14-0 to Rs. 5-8-0 per acre. Brahmans, Chhattris, and Ahírs, ail from Rs. 5 to Rs. 6-8, and Kachhis, who are fairly numerous, pay Rs. 9-10, Musalmans pay Rs. 5-5. The assessment fixed at summary settlement was Rs. 42,700. The revised demand is Rs. 74,650. ID The revenge rate falle at Rs. 27 on cultivated. Ditto ditto +7 1.5 on cultivated and culturable. Ditto ditto 31 1.5 tbroughout. The population is 37,459, sparse towards the north, as already observed, but dense in the south. It is thus divided :- Misalmans 17.8 per cent. of the whole. Hindus 82-7 Agriculturists 687 Non-agriculturists 41.3 The proportion of Musalmans in this pargana is high. They are in greatest strength on the south, where all the village communities are Mu- salman, but the Musalman element is strong throughout the pargana. is due to its history, which will be noticed. va ...