Budaun Tahsil, 1908
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Budaun Tahsil
Head-quarters /a/w/ of Budaun District, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Budaun and UjhanT, and lying between 27° 50' and 28° 12' N. and 78° 48' and 79° 19' E., with an area of 385 square miles. Population increased from 226,673 ""* ^^Q^ to 243,141 in 1901. There are 377 villages and two towns: Budaun (population, 39,031), the District and Ar/w/V head-quarters, and Ujhani (7)917)- The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 2,78,000, and for cesses Rs. 39,000. The density of population, 632 persons per square mile, is the highest in the District.
A large portion of the talis// is situated in the fertile Katehr tract, and is watered by the Sot. In the north-east this slopes to the valley of the Aril, and still contains portions of the famous forest which once surrounded Aonla in Bareilly District. South-west of the Katehr lies a high ridge of sandy land, 3 or 4 miles wide, from which a stretch of precarious alluvial khadar reaches to the Ganges on the south-west border. In 1903-4 the area under cultiva- tion was 341 square miles, of which 65 were irrigated. Wells supply two-thirds of the irrigated area.
