PILIBHIT  , a

town and district of British India, in the Bareilly division of the United Provinces . The town—pop . (1901), 33,49o-contains the mosque of Hafiz Rahmat Khan, the Rohilla chieftain, built in the second half of the 18th century . Trade is mainly in agricultural produce, and in the products of the neighbouring Himalayan territory and Nepal . The DISTRICT OF PILIBHIT has an area of 1350 sq. m.; pop . (19o1), 470,339, showing a decrease of 3% in the decade . Though so near the Himalayas it is entirely a plain . In its midst is the Mala swamp . The east is forest-clad, poor and unhealthy; on the other side of the Mala the land becomes more fertile . The chief river is the Sarda, and the Gumti rises in the east . The principal crops are rice, pulses, wheat and sugar-cane . Sugar-refining is carried on, and sugar, wheat, rice and hemp are exported .

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Lucknow-Bareilly section of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway runs through the district, a portion of which is watered by the Rohilkhand canals .