GON
572
and
his estate was bestowed on loyalty to the British crown.
GONDA
Maharaja
Man
Singh, of Shahganj, for his
— Pargana Partabgarh—Tahsil —
Village
Paetabgarh
—District
Paetabgarh. This place was founded by a tribe called Gonds two miles from Bela, on the road from Allahabad to Fyzabad. The
it
is
river
Sai is two miles south. Raja Pirthipat tried to get the village: he fought the zamindars, and was beaten. There was a great fight in 1265 F. Babu Sripat Singh, taluqdar of Dandi Kachh, tried to take it others, including the taluqdars of Sujakhar, Bahlolpur, and Pirthlganj, came to aid the zamindar of Gonda Sripat Singh was beaten.
Population
2,063 1,540
Hindus Mu3alinans
523
There is a temple of Asht Bhuji Debi, and a Government school at which there are 8 Hindu and 32 Musalman pupils. A large bazar is held at which the annual sales amount to Rs. 15,000. There is a fair in the light half of Kuar, and also of Chait, on the 8th and 9th, in honour of Asht Bhuji Debi, attended by 2,500 people.
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GOPAMAU
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Pargana* Tahsil Hardoi District Haedoi. One of the and most interesting parganas in Oudh, Gopamau covers 328 square miles on the right bank of the Gumti. Along the whole of its eastern side the Gumti separates it from parganas Chandra and Misrikh and Aurangabad in Sitapur. On the south it is bounded by parganas Sandila and Balamau, on the west by parganas Bangar (the Sai being the boundary for a considerable distance), Bawan, and Sara, and on the north by parganas Mansurnagar and Pihani. largest
Thirty miles long and twenty broad, it has an area of 328 square miles, of which 172 are cultivated. The percentages of cultivated, culturable, third of the soil (3374) is and barren are 51-57, 2784, and 1915. classed as light and sandy (bhur) only a fourth (25'83) is irrigated,-from Only 1-44 per cent, is under 2,347 ponds (775), and 4,716 wells (18-08). The average area of cultivation to each plough is 7y acres. groves.
A
is the watershed of the Gumti and Sai, here called for a course the Bhainsta. Along the east of the pargana the oscillations of the Gumti at some distant period before it settled down into its present bed have caused the surface soil to be light and sandy. Prominent traces of that remote time are still to be seen in the picturesque clusters and ranges of shifting sand hills which here and there relieve the monotony of the landscape at distances of from one to three -miles from the river. Near Gopamau these hills of sand are specially picturesque. Similar formations are found at Tandaur, Bazidnagar, Singhaura, and Beni
The pargana
portion of
its
Kuian.
The lover of scenery finds a charm in their fantastic outlines, glistening white and clear in the east as the morning sun mounts over them. To the
By A.
Harington,
c.s.,
Assistant Commissioner.
