JOURNAL 



OF TH1 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. II.— 1850. 



Report on the Statistics of Banda. — By M. P. Edgeworth, Esquire, 

 Commissioner of Mooltan, late Collector of Banda, 



The district of Banda forms an irregular triangle bounded on 

 the north and north-east by the river Jumna, which separates it 

 from the Fattehpur and Allahabad districts ; on the west principally 

 by the river Ken (Caine), part of the Banda and Pylani divi- 

 sions, moreover, extend beyond that river and are bounded by the 

 Hamirpur district, and the Cherkhari and Jaloun states ; the south- 

 west and south are bounded by the river Ken and partly by the second 

 range of low hills, forming the flank of the table-land of Bundelkhand. 

 But the intermediate boundary is very irregular, owing to the intermix- 

 ture of villages belonging to Adjyegarh and Punna among the indepen- 

 dent states, but principally arising from the exchange of many villages 

 in Pergannahs Kiinhas and Bhitri for the Pergannah of Kalinjar 

 taken from the Chaubehs ; this leaves a long slip of independent terri- 

 tory between the Pergannahs of Bndousa and Tirohan. This irregu- 

 larity of outline is increased by the circumstance that such villages in 

 the above named Pergannahs, as were then held rent free, were not 

 given to the Chaubehs, but remained under the jurisdiction of the 

 officers of this district. 



3rd. The actual area amounts to 18,42,480 acres or 2,174-8 statute 

 and geographical miles distributed as follows. — 

 Barren, 3,49,214 acres. 

 Culturable, 4,60,887 do. 

 Cultivated, 9,63,126 do. 



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