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PAL-PAN 57 "Turmeric, for instance, bas either been introduced, or its cultivation largely extended since annexation; in most villages it grows everywhere and will on poor sandy soil. It pays one rupec to twenty annas per kachcha bigha; the asámi grumbles; he says that only exceptional prices make it pay, but he holds ou, making up such losses by his gain on cereals. Now there is absolutely no reason for this turmeric rate, five hundred per cent. above the grain rate. "Turmeric has only one advantage, that is, that wild animals do not eat it, but really the danger from this to any crop is a mere triflo--nothing to what occurs in Kukra, Mailáni, Aurangabad, Srinagar, and other parganas. During three weeks' residence I only saw five níl-gae in the pargana. In Srinagar I have killed seven in a morning Turmeric is a most difficult product to prepare, the expense of boiling down the roots is great, the value of the produce after deducting cost of preparation is by no means more than that of fair crops of rice, and I have no doubt that this now exceptional rate is really very little above what will prevail over the whole area, when the relation between the landlord and tenant have settled down. Precautions have been taken to protect any men who had acquired a right to hereditary tenancies before the inclusion of the pargana in Oudh, but hardly any have claimed. When I asked the land- lords why rent was so low, I received complaints of asámis, of cattle disease, and of unhealthiness; but in all these matters the pargana is far better than Khairigarh, where the tenants pay much higher rents, eight and ten annas the kachcha bigha." PALIA-Pargana Palia-Tahsil NIGHÁSAN-District KHERJ.— A town from which a pargana derives its name in the district of Kheri, is situatod two miles north of the Chauka river, and 112 miles north-west from Luck- now. Latitude 28°26, longitude 80°37'. There are two Hindu temples in Palia. It bas a market twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Articles of country consumption are sold. There is only one masonry well, and no masonry house; the place is very liable to fover, partly from the bad water; it belongs to a Kateria Chhattri. The place is of modern foundation. Population, 4,204— ces ( Adult Males Minors Females Adult Minors 1,606 704 1,268 626 PANDRI KALAN-Pargana HARHA--Tahsil UNAO-District UNAO.-- It is 10 miles south-cast of the sadr station. Two miles south of it there is an unmetalled road between Unao and Rae Bareli districts through tahsil Purwa. It is related regarding its foundation that two brothers, Borhú Pánde and Hari Pánde, Brahmans by caste, were in the service of Rája Jai Chand, of Kanauj, and each of them laid the foundation of a village, Daming it after himself by the permission of the rája. It is so called because it was founded by the elder brother. The soil is clay and sand and surface level; neighbouring country delightful. There is no jungle, but mango trees in 8