BAJ? WAN^BAR WANT.
i8o
^2843, or
average incidence,
2s.
8^d. per acre of total area.
IS.
10,244 males and 7246 females. the agricultural population
among
Number
pargands.
one
8|d. per acre of cultivated area,
Population (1881) 17,490, namely, The percentage of females to males is
Oudh
lowest in any of the
tlie
Five village schools, including
of villages, 69.
for girls.
Barwan. The
—Town
in
Hardoi
District,
Oudh on
the right bank of the
13 miles west of Hardoi, and 19 miles east of Fatehgarh. fort was destroyed on the re-occupation of the country after the
Garra
river,
Mutiny.
Barwan
now an
is
insignificant village of
a population (1881) of 1552.
has but
It
little
216
mud
trade of
its
huts, with
own, but
considerable quantities of cotton, grain, timber, hides, and sugar pass
down
the Garra from Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Anupshahr, and Pilibhit,
Cawnpur, Mirzapur, and Benares. Government school. under the Deputy Bhi'l (Bheel) Agency of It lies north of Khandesh, on the left bank of the Central India. Narbada (Nerbudda) river, between lat. 21° 41' and 22° 9' n., The country abounds in and long. 74“ 29' and 75° 22' E. fine timber and is well watered by mountain streams, but only
on
way Barwani.
to
their
partially
56,445
— State
Area,
cultivated.
1362
square
(mostly Bhils), distributed in
i
miles;
town and
population
299
(1881)
villages,
and
occupying 10,216 houses; number of persons per square mile, 41
Of
'4.
Hindus number 44,818; Muhammadans, 381; Christians, 9 and aboriginal tribes, 8605. Revenue,
the total population,
2632; Jains, The Chiefs of this State are Sesodia Rajputs of the about 3,000. Udaipur (Oodeypore) family, who separated from the parent stock Their history is enveloped in obscurity. about the 14th century.
According to in the
nth
local tradition, they settled
century.
Paras
Ram,
on the banks of the Narbada
the 15th in ascent from the present
opposed the advance of the imperial armies on Malwa, and was away prisoner to Delhi, where he consented to embrace Muhammadanism, on condition of his being permitted to return to his ancestral On his return, he retired into seclusion, and was succeeded by State. chief,
carried
his
son Bhim Singh, who erected a Muhammadan tomb over his may be seen to this day, at Awasgarh.
father’s
remains, which
Scattered remains of
ancient
prosperity
forts,
towns, and irrigation works testify to the
of the State.
From
the
beginning
of
the
last
Their century the power of the chiefs of Barwani gradually declined. country, originally of considerable extent, was devastated by the Marathas, and at length only a in length, with the lowlands
on
strip
of the Sdtpura range, 80 miles
either side,
remained to them.
did not, however, become tributary to any of the
Malwa
They
chiefs.
In
i860, owing to the incapacity of the then chief (Jaswant Singh), the State was taken under British
management, and so remained
till
1873,
