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separates it from the Hardoi district, on the north by pargana Misrikh, and on the east by Kurauna. Its area is 60 square miles.
With the exception of a few villages to the north-east, the pargana is a poor one. If it be divided into two parts by a line running paralled to the Gumti and about 4 miles from it, we shall find that the villages, between the line and the river are very indifferent. The soil is bhur, there is no tarai, and the sand which is blown over them from the river banks is very destructive to vegetation. The other part of the pargana is good, especially the villages round about and including Aurangabad Kh4s. Irrigation is rare. There are no lakes, forests, tanks, or rivers within the boundary of the pargana. The percentage of first class crops is small. The
area
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thus classified
Cultivated land Culturable „
Muafi Barren
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Acres. 24,806 8,550 90 4,856
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Musalmana
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19,365, which
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1,426
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The Musalmans thus are llj per cent, of the entire population. There are 323 souls to the square mile. To each head of the agricultural population there are about 2| acres of cultivation and 3 acres of malguzari land. The people live in 4,064 houses, to each of which there are thus 4'7 inhaTwo roads run through the pargana, one from Sitapur through bitants. Ramkot and Misrikh, the other from Khairabad through Machhtehta. They meet at Nimkhar (see Town History) on the Gumti, which is fordable at that place during the dry weather, and from which a road runs Water communication is afforded by the Gumti. The princito Hardoi. pal bazars are held at Aurangabad Khas and Mmkh^r or Nimsir, to the histories of which towns the reader is referred for particulars regarding the markets, as ako the sacred buildings and old fort at the latter town. The pargana produces nothing beyond the ordinary staples of the province. No manufactures are carried on no mines or quarries are worked.
Aurangabad is not mentioned in the " Ain-i-Akbari," because its formaBut under tion into a pargana dates only from the British annexation. Todar Mai the lands were included in Nimkhdr, which embraced the lands of six muhals, namely, Maholi, Misrikh, and NimJchdr in Sitapur and Kasta, A'bgdon and Sihandardbad in the Kheri district, and which formed part of Sarkar Khairabad. All this territory of Nimkhar was granted by the
