Pawayan Town

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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.

Pawayan Town

-Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Shahjahanpur District, United Provinces, situated in 28 4' N. and 80 5' E?, on the steam tramway from Shahjahanpur city to Mailani in Kherl District. Population (1901), 5,408. Pawayan was founded early in the eighteenth century by a Raja whose descendants still own a large estate in the neighbourhood. It contains a tahsili, a munsifi, a dispensary, and a branch of the American Methodist Mission. Pawayan is administered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of about Rs. 1,800. The bazar is poor and straggling, but there is some trade in sugar and brass vessels. The tahsili school has 158 pupils.