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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 6, p. 161.

ADMINISTRA TION between 1834 and 1837 by Mr. Thomason, afterwards Lieutenant- Governor of the North-Western Provinces, and Mr. (afterwards Sir Robert) Montgomery. Land was classified according as it produced only rice or all kinds of crops, and average rates were assumed for each class of soil. The rental 'assets 'so calculated were checked by assumed average pargana rates. The proportion taken as revenue varied between 50 and 66 p6rcent., and the revenue demand was fixed at 12-4 lakhs. This settlement was revised between 1866 and 1875. The land was again classed according to the crops it produced, and the rice land was divided into four or five classes according to its quality, while the ordinary land was subdivided according to its position near the village site or remote from it. Rent rates were selected for each class of soil at inspection, and were applied to the areas of each class, deductions being made in the case of land held by high-caste tenants, who pay lower rates than those of low caste, and in the case of villages where rents were difficult to collect. The revenue fixed amounted to 16.6 lakhs, while the assumed rental 'assets' were 34-8 lakhs. The revenue demand in 1903-4 was I7.8 lakhs, the incidence being Rs. 1-5 per acre, varying in different parganas from R. I to Rs. r.6. This figure includes the revenue of 176 villages which are permanently settled, as they formerly belonged to the Benares province. The District is at present (1906) being resettled. Collections on account of land revenue and revenue from all sources have been, in thousands of rupees:- 1880-1. 1890-1. 1900-. 1903-4. Land revenue . . 16,59 15,53 I9,17 117,78 Total revenue . . . 18,92 21,65 25,57 22,97 AZAMGARH is the only municipality, but ten towns are administered under Act XX of 1856. Beyond the limits of these, local affairs are managed by the District board, which in 1903-4 had an income of I-2 lakhs, chiefly derived from local rates. The expenditure was also I-2 lakhs, and included Rs. 43,000 spent on roads and buildings. The District Superintendent of police has a force of 4 inspectors, IIo subordinate officers, and 408 constables, besides 117 municipal and town police, and 2,260 rural and road police. There are 23 police stations. In I903 the District jail contained a daily average of 239 inmates. Azamgarh is above the Provincial average as regards the literacy of its inhabitants, of whom 3-3 per cent. (6-8 males and 0-2 females) could read and write in I90o. The number of public schools has risen from I84 with 7,591 pupils in I88O-i to 224 with 11,I83 pupils in 1900-1. In 1903-4 there were 265 such institutions with 14,216 pupils, of whom VOL. VI. M