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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 17, p. 234.

234 MA URj 1VjN Maurâ.wdn.-Town in the Purwa tahsil of Unao District, United Provinces, situated in 26° 26' N. and 80° 53' E., on the road from Unao town to Rae Bareli. Population (1901), 7,91 i. The place first became of importance early in the nineteenth century as the resi- dence of a Khattri banker, who gradually acquired a large taluka. During the Mutiny the talukddr, Gauri Shankar, behaved with unshaken loyalty and was one of the five talukddrs whose estates were exempted from confiscation. He was rewarded with the title of Raja and a permanent settlement at a reduced revenue. Maurawan contains a dispensary and three schools with 150 pupils, one school being maintained by the talukddr. There is little trade, but the jewellery and carpentry produced here have some reputation. Mdval.-Tdluka of Poona District, Bombay, lying between 18° 36' and 18° 59' N. and 73° 2o' and 73° 46' E., with an area of 385 square miles. It contains two towns, LONAULI (population, 6,686) and TALEGAON-DABHADE (5,238) ; and 162 villages. The population in 1901 was 65,176, compared with 66,876 in 1891. The density, 169 persons per square mile, is below the District average. The demand for land revenue in 1903-q. was 1-2 lakhs, and for cesses Rs. 8,ooo. Three leading spurs from the Western Ghats cross the tdbihcz. The largest passes east and west across its whole length in the south, a second penetrates to the centre, and the third forms the north-east boundary for about 20 miles. Maval is fairly wooded. The principal soils are red and grey; black soil is found only on the banks of rivers and large streams, of which the chief are the Indra- yani and Andhra. Rice is everywhere the principal crop. The rainfall varies greatly in different parts. It is heavy close to the Ghats and considerably lighter near the eastern boundary. Hot winds are almost unknown, and the climate is generally cooler than in the east of the District. The south-east line of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway and the Bombay road both cross the taluka. The villages, along or at short distance from the road, derive considerable advantage from the sale of grass for the numerous droves of cart- and pack-bullocks that daily halt at the different stages. The head-quarters are at Wadgaon, a small village near the station of the same name on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Maw (Burmese, Bau).-The northernmost and second largest of the States of the Myelat division of the Southern Shan States, Burma, lying between 21° 11' and 21° 43' N. and 96° 19' and 96° 5o' E., with an area of 550 square miles. It is bounded on the north by the Yeyaman tract of the Kyaukse District of Upper Burma; on the east by Lawksawk; on the south by Yengan; and on the west by Kyaukse District. The State falls into two natural divisions: the valley of the Zawgyi, its only important waterway, with the hills to the north of that