Muhammadabad 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.
Muhammadabad Tahsil
South-eastern tahsil of Azamgarh District, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Karyat Mittu, Chiriakot, Maunath Bhanjan or Mau, and Muhammadabad, and lying between 25° 48' and 26° 8' N. and 83° ri' and 83° 40' E., with an area of 427 square miles. This area was reduced by 71 miles in 1904, portions being transferred to the new Ghosi tahsil. Population fell from 359,746 in 1891 to 306,870 in 1901, and allowing for the recent change is now 251,796. There are 971 villages and three towns : ]\Iau (population, 17,696), Mubarakpur (15,433), and Muhammadabad (8,775), the tahsil head-quarters.
The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 3,63,000, and for cesses Rs. 59,000 ; but after the transfer these figures became Rs. 3,02,000 and Rs. 49,000. The density of population of the reconstituted tahsil is 707 persons per square mile, or almost exactly the District average. The tahsil is inter- sected by several small streams and a number of swamps and marshes, and lies south of the ChhotI Sarju and its tributary, the Tons. In 1 900- 1, 238 square miles of the old area were under cultivation, of which 146 were irrigated. Wells supply rather more than half the irrigated area, and tanks or swamps and small rivers the remainder in equal proportions.
