JALAUN  , a

town and district of British India, in the Allahabad division of the United Provinces . Pop. of town (1901), 8573 . Formerly it was the residence of a Mahratta governor, but never the headquarters of the district, which are at Orai . The DISTRICT OF JALAUN has an area of 1477 sq . M . It lies entirely within the level plain of Bundelkhand, north of the hill country, and is almost surrounded by the Jumna and its tributaries the Betwa and Pahuj . The central region thus enclosed is a dead level of cultivated land, almost destitute of trees, and sparsely dotted with villages . The southern portion presents almost one unbroken sheet of cultivation . The boundary rivers form the only interesting feature in Jalaun . The river Non flows through the centre of the district, which it drains by innumerable small ravines instead of watering . Jalaun has suffered much from the noxious kans grass, owing to the spread of which many villages have been abandoned and their lands thrown out of cultivation . Pop .

(1901), 399,726, showing an increase of 1% . The two largest towns are Kunch (15,888), and

Kalpi (10,139) . The district is traversed by the line of the Indian Midland railway from Jhansi to Cawnpore . A small part of it is watered by the Betwa canal . Grain, oil-seeds, cotton and ghi are exported . region on the western slopes of the sierras; CocuIa (7090 in 1895); and Zacoalco (6516) . Jalisco was first invaded by the Spaniards about 1526 and was soon afterwards conquered by Null() de Guzman . It once formed part of the reyno of Nueva Galicia, which also included Aguas Calientes and Zacatecas . In 1889 its area was much reduced by a subdivision of its coastal zone, which was set apart as the territory of Tepic .