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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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UNAO , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Lucknow See also:division of the See also:United Provinces. The town is to m. N.E. of See also:Cawnpore, on the Oudh and See also:Rohilkhand railway. Pop. (1901), 13,109. The DISTRICT OF UNAO has an See also:area of 1792 sq. m. It consists of a See also:flat alluvial See also:plain, lying See also:north of the See also:Ganges. See also:Rich and fertile tracts, studded with groves, alternate with stretches of See also:waste See also:land and plains of barren usar, the whole being intersected by small streams, used for See also:irrigation. The Ganges is the only navigable See also:river in the district, while the Sai forms its north-eastern boundary. The temperature varies from about 750 to 103° in the hot See also:season and from 46° to 79° in the See also:cold season. The See also:annual rainfall averages about 35 in. Pop.

(1901), 976,639, showing an increase of 2.4% in the See also:

decade. The See also:principal crops are See also:barley, See also:wheat, pulses, See also:rice and millets, with some See also:cotton, See also:sugar-See also:cane and See also:poppy. The district is crossed by the See also:main See also:line of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway. During the See also:Mutiny of 1857-58 Unao was the See also:scene of several severe engagements between See also:General See also:Havelock's little See also:army and the rebels on his See also:march to relieve Lucknow. On the See also:death of See also:Raja Jasa Singh, one of the leading rebels, and the See also:capture of his two sons, the See also:family estates were confiscated, and the villages either restored to their former owners or given to other landholders for their See also:loyalty. See Unao District Gazetteer (See also:Allahabad, 1903).

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