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Now, three-fifths of all the villages in Bara Banki are the property of wealthy talnqdars, who do not mortgage their villages the land revenue of Bara Banki is Rs. 15,44,000 therefore in one year the smaller proprietors involved their estates to about the extBnt of one year's revenues at this rate they would part with all their property in about twelve or fourteen years.

In 1873 the transactions were as follows Description.