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DALMAU Pargana—Tahsil LA-LG&.m— District Rae
Bareli.—This large pargana extends along the bank of the Ganges from Salon on the east to parganas Khiron and Sareni on the west on the north lies pargana Bareli, and on the south the river Ganges separates it from district Fatehpur. It it contains 292 villages is about 24 miles in length and about 12 in breadth summary settlement. the recorded at townships 351 out of the consolidated The area is 253 square miles. The population is 145,088, of whom 19,614 are Brahmans, 11,609 Chhattris, 22,926 Ahirs, 16,443 Chamars. These
figures
are not
significant except that the proportion of
Brahmans
is
remarkably high.
The landed tenures
are
Taluqdari Grants Zamindari Pattidari
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213 32 33
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14
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292
The Government revenue is Rs. 4,11,143, being at the rate of Rs. 2-8-8 per acre, which is very high. The pargana is fertile and well cultivated in some places towards the Ganges. Water is near the surface there are a number of depressions and elevations which give variety to the landscape the soil is a fertile loam irrigation is carried on chiefly from wells. There are ten bazars, viz., Lalganj, Kakoran in Sudamanpur, Narpatganj, Farhatganj, Dalmau Khas, Gaura, Hardo Raghunathganj in KJaajurgaon, Jagatpur Baisura, Sarae Ishri Bakhsh, Jagatpur Tanghan. Lalganj is the most important the main imports are rice and sugar from Fyzabad, and cotton from Fatehpur. There is a considerable trade in cattle. There are two fairs in the pargana, one in September at Dalmau, and the other at Sudamanpur, in honour of a local god, Kakoran Deota ; at each of these about 50,000 people assemble. Kakoran, too, is a great cattle fair 2,500 head are generally brought up for sale. During the Nawabi, salt was manufactured in 22 villages the annual out-turn was about 17,000 maunds, and the value Rs. 18,000 Saltpetre was made in no less than 44 villages. little saltpetre is still made, but only in two villages.
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The botany of the pargana is not remarkable an oil expressed from the mahua is largely used for burning. A tree called R^m-Riikh in village Deogion in this pargana is said to be peculiar to it. There are only
seeds of
two specimens. On stripping the fbark off any place, the words " Ram Ram" will be found legibly written as in red ink. The untutored Indian has therefore authority for seeing his god in the trees at least.
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dispensary has been built by Raja Dakhinaranjan Mukarji on the road from Dalmau to Salon. The history of the pargana need not be given here, it is simply that of the gradual spread of the Bais, varied by the quarrels between the Bhars and the Musalmans of Jaunpur. Ibrahim Sharqi of Jaunpur conquered the Bhars, and divided the territory now forming this pargana into six districts JaMlpur, Birkha, Bhai, Satawan, Haweli, i. e., Dalmau Khas, and Pandaria ; collectors, called tappadars, were appointed to each. When Dalmau was made a pargana by Akbar it was placed in Sarkar Manikpur and Subah Allahabad, and so it remained. Meanwhile, under Newal Rae, the great prime minister of Nawab Safdar
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