District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh Supplementary Notes and Statistics Pilibhit District

But the new Sarda Canal the construction of"3 ) which is in progress will irrigate the whole of the district Up to the end of September 1922 10'08 acres of land had been acquired for that purpose and Rs. [...] But for the takavi the area under cane would liaie been insignificant and the district would not have recvered so rapidly from the effect of the draught. [...] To ease the situation cheep grain shops were opened in the IVIunicipalities of Pilibhit and Bisalpur and the town area of Puranpur. [...] All the hanks that iexisted at the time of last revision of the district gazetteer have now ceased to exist owing mainly to the lack of interest shown by the members of the credit societies. [...] The assessment of land revenue of tahsil Pilibhit was revised in 1915 and resulted in a net increase of Rs 74 714.13-4 The prominent feature of this revision was the commutation of grain rents into cash rents which led to much litigation between landlords and their tenants the former resisting the commutation while the latter insisted on it.