438 MAL In an archway of the wall of the old fort is a shrine dedicated to Jurai Mámá, at which the new ámil on his coming used to sacrifice a buffalo, and at the same place is a small temple in which is a deity called Gangdeo, to whom he also offered up a cock. The schools here (two in number) are very well attended by nearly 200 boys, and there are two girls' schools, with 80 pupils on the registers, The saráe was built in 1860, and the bazár is held in Mirzaganj. MALLANPUR*_Parganc KUNDRI (NORTH)—Tahsil BISWAN-District SITAPUR. This place is 41 miles to the north-east of Sitapur, with which it is connected by a high road running through Tambaur and Lábarpur. It is five miles east from Tambaur, and is washed on the north and cast by the navigable river Daháwar at its confluence with the Gogra. It is also on the Kheri and Bahraich road. It takes its name from one Mallán, a Kurmi, who founded the town 400 years ago. Subsequently the Raik- wár Rajputs took it, and they still hold it. The population amounts to 4,045, residing altogether in mud houses ; the only masonry one being that occupied by the taluqdar (Rája Munesh- war Bakhsh). The town was never like Seota, in the Gurka Tlaqa, and bence there is no restriction put upon the building of masonry houses or upon the growing of sugarcane. There is a good bi-weekly bazar held in the town, the annual value of the sales being Rs. 7,000. The school affords instruction to 50 boys. MALLANWÄN*-Pargana-Tahsil. BILGRÁM--District HARDOI.—This pargana consists of 123 yillages. It is bounded by pargana Bangar on the north, pargana Bilgram on the north-west, pargana Kachhandan on the south-west, and pargana Bangarmau (Unao) on the south, while the Sai separates it from Parganas Sandíla and Bálamau on the east. Its greatest length and breadth are 16 and 153 miles, and it has an area of 136 square miles. Three-fifths (60-79 per cent.) is cultivated ; a sixth (16-21 per cent.) is culturable. About a fifth (18-11 per cent.) is returned as barren. A fourth of the area is rated as third-class—that is, sandy and light. Two- fifths of the cultivated area is irrigated, rather more than half the irrigata ed area being watered from wells, and the rest from tanks and ponds, The area under groves, 4.89 per cent of the whole, is the highest in the district. The average area of cultivation to each plough is 6 acres. Crossing the pargana from west to east the natural features which pre- sent themselves are these. On the west towards the Ganges is a strip of low tarái or kachh' land, which, like the adjacent pargana of Kachhandan, has been scooped by the Ganges out of the high land or bangar, and level- led and enriched with alluvial deposits during the river's gradual west- Ward recession to its present bed at the western edge of Kachhandan. Here percolation from below supplies the want of jħils and wells, and
- By Mr, M. L. Ferrer, C.S., Assistant Comtoissioner,
By Mr. A. H. Harington, B.A., C. S., Assistant Commissioner.
