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Rai Bareli: A Gazetteer Being Volume XXXIX of the District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

1924

The area is liable to vary every year by reson of the action of the Ganges for a small variation in the deep stream of the river may involve a very noticeable change in the area of the district. [...] The banks of the Sai are high and in many places precipitous : the level of the water is a great distance below the surface of the country and the river is therefore of little value for irrigation except for the small areas of alluvial land in its immediate neighbourhood. [...] Another is the 1111ahaxajganj Naiya which rises in the jhil tract of Itunahrawan in the north of the district and flows in a winding course with a generally southerly direction past Maharajganj and thence through the east of the Rai'Bareli tahsil as far as the railway beyond which it forms the boundary between Rai Bareli on the west and Rokha Jais and Parshadepur on the east finally joining th [...] The Soh is a small stream of a similar nature which has its origin in the large tanks in the south of pargana Mauranwan of Unao and flows through the west of the Rai Bareli tahsil about two miles north of the Unao road to join the Sai on the right hank near the village of Bardar three miles. north-east of Gurbaklishganj. [...] In pargana Inhauna to the extreme north-east the land is somewhat lighter in character as it approaches the Gumti and along the Simrauta Naiya the direct drainage has some ifluence on the soil of the villages of the parganas along its banks.
government politics public policy
Pages
290
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v H.R. Nevill view
Chapter I. General Features
1-24 H.R. Nevill view
Chapter II. Agriculture and Commerce
25-54 H.R. Nevill view
Chapter III. The People
55-106 H.R. Nevill view
Chapter IV. Revenue and Administration
107-128 H.R. Nevill view
Chapter V. History
129-152 H.R. Nevill view
Gazetteer of Rai Bareli Directory
i-230 H.R. Nevill view
Gazetteer of Rai Bareli Appendix
i-xliv H.R. Nevill view
Index
i-vii H.R. Nevill view