District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Supplementary Notes and Statistics up to 1931-32 to Volume XLII(D) Pilibhit District

Page 56 —PRESENT CANALS Undoubtedly one of the most far reaching events of the decade has been the construction of the Sarda Canal one of the largest and most up-to-date of its kind the upper reaches of which lie in the Pilibhit District. [...] The canal draws its supplies from the Sarda river at Banbassa ; the Head works the first 20 miles of the main canal the Sara-Deoha Feeder and the first 6 miles of the Bisalpur Branch lie in the Naini Tal district. [...] It is 16 miles long of which Li miles are in the Pilibhit district.14 Pilibbit District The Kailash Canal now takes off the Doha Bahgul Feeder At mile 8 ; the first 3i miles of this canal to the north of the feeder were abandoned as the result of the collapse of the Kailash dam during the floods of 1924. [...] Page S4—CENsus or 1931 During the decade the population of the district rose by 11 008 in Tahsil Pilibhit 4 256 in Bisalpur and 1 973 in Puranpur a total rise of 17 237 which is almost exactly the amount of the increase in the decade of 1901-11.16 Pilibhit District Page 86—SEX Of the total population of 448 838 208 048 or 46'36 per cent are females ; thus the percentage is practically the sa [...] The family of the Katheriyas of Jatpura are now represented by Surendra Vikram Ranjit Shah and Ltavendra Shah the estate of the latter being under the management of the Court of Wards.