BAJi WALA—BAR WAN. town
is
surrounded with a
179
Population under
fine wall.
thousand.
five
Travellers’ bungalow.
Barwala. 16'
— TahsU of
45" and 29° 36' 30"
Hissdr District, Punjab, lying between 29° and between 75° 47' 45" and 76° 4' 15"
N. lat.,
Area, 580 square miles; population (1881) 78,549, name!}', Hindus, 51,279; Muhammadans, 26,317; Sikhs, 677; and ‘others,’ 276; average persons per square mile, 128. Revenue of the tahsil,
- ^563i.
It contains one civil and one criminal court, presided over by E. long.
the tahstlddr.
men
village
Barwala. the
Police circles {thdnds),
watchmen
— Town
tahsil
distant
2
strength of regular police, 35
{c/taufdddrs), 204.
in
18
Hissar District, Punjab, and head-quarters of miles
north-east of
Population
Hissar.
Surrounding ruins testily the former importance (1881) 3628. of this town, which is now merely a local centre of no commercial consideration.
Tahsili, police station, post-office.
who own the neighbouring Barwan. Pargand in Hardoi
Sayyids,
—
Principal inhabitants,
country. District,
Oudh
bounded on the
north by Saromannagar and Pali pargands, east by Bawan, south by
According to
Sandi, and west by Katidri pargands.
country was originally held by the Thatheras, expelled by the Sombansis.
Muhammadans
They
in
their turn
local tradition, the
who were
afterwards
gave way before the
but in the beginning of the 15th century. Raja Bar-
wan, grandson of the Sombansi chief
who had
fled to
the
Kumaun
was allowed by the Governor of Kanauj to resume possession of his grandfather’s domain, and to establish himself at Baburhia, the deserted capital of the Thatheras, which he re-named Barwan. For a time the country was held by two brothers, descendants of Raja Barwan, who refused to pay tribute, and resisted all attempts at coercion. Eventually they were persuaded to send their sons to Akbar’s Hills,
where they so distinguished themselves by military service in Deccan that the Emperor bestowed upon them a formal rent-free grant of the pargand, together with the title of Khan. The Sombansis have held Barwan uninterruptedly for 4J centuries, and are still in court,
the
possession of 68 out of the 69 villages which comprise the pargand. They have always given much trouble to the revenue authorities, and
were
until recent years notorious thieves
Barwan may be described
as
and
cattle-lifters.
a backward, roadless,
Physically,
and somewhat
inaccessible pargand, lying along both sides of the Garra river, between
the central hangar or high lands
along the Ganges and Rdmganga.
and the low-lying kachh country
To
the east the country consists
of a high irregular ridge of sand, sinking westward into a low and fertile marshy tract watered by winding streams and jhils, and over-
grown here and there with patches of dhdk jungle. Area, 53 square Government land revenue demand, miles, of which 33 are cultivated.
