Konch/ Kunch Town

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kunch Town

{Konch).Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Jalaun District, United Provinces, situated in 25° 59' N. and 79° 10' E., on a branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Population (1901), 15,888. Kunch was the head-quarters of a f/iahdl or pargana under Akbar. In 1804 the commander of the British troops in Bundelkhand dispatched a force to reduce the fort of Amanta Malaya, five miles from Kunch. Amir Khan, the Pindari, came to the rescue of the garrison, and the British had to retire to Kunch after losing heavily. The Pindaris subsequently overpowered a small detach- ment of reinforcements at KalpI, but their forces were entirely broken and dispersed by the British troops a month later. During the Mutiny Kunch was several times occupied by the rebel troops.

The town consists of a business quarter in the east, and a quiet, scattered country village to the west. The latter contains the high site of an old ruined mud fort, on which the tahs'di and police station now stand. The former is adorned by a large tank constructed in the eighteenth century, and has been much improved during the last thirty years. A new bazar has been built, and a large enclosure has been made, to which goods may be brought free of octroi. The chief public buildings are the dispensary and tahsili school. Kunch has been a municipality since 1868. During the ten years ending 1901 the income and ex- penditure averaged Rs. 13,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 22,000, chiefly from octroi (Rs. 13,000) and a tax on professions and trades (Rs. 2,000); and the expenditure was Rs. 22,000. The town is the largest trading centre in the District, and is increasing in importance. Grain and gJu are the chief exports, and a large cattle market is held. Sugar, tobacco, and rice are imported for distribution to the country around. The tahsil school has 66 pupils, four municipal schools 200, and a girls' school 22 pupils.