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Bengal District Gazetteers Jessore

1912

The rivers here are beyond the reach of the tides and except during the height of the rains remain within the bounds of their high banks The general fall in the level of the country is from north-west to south-east and the river channels and lines of drainage follow this direction. [...] The souteast where the rivers still have a flowing current is the most prosperous part of the district and large villages are found along some of the rivers such as the Bhairab the Chitra and the Nabaganga the banks of which are well wooded. [...] the statevut as to the easterly progress of the Gan* holds good and the result of this advance of the main stream eastwards was the diminutiou in bulk of the rivers taking off frtm it on the south. [...] These rivers are the Garai or Madhumati the Kaliganga and the Bankdna the latter two of which have improved owing to the opening up of the Hallifax Canal : on the other hand owing to the silting up of the Muchikhali neither the Nabaganga nor the Chitra have any flowing water during the dry weather. [...] In other words the work that had to be performed by the Bhairab the Kabadak the Nabaganga and the Mysore Chitra has been completed and the rivers have died." The following is an account of the rivers of Jessore.
government politics public policy
Pages
189
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii L.S.S. O’malley view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-20 unknown view
Chapter II. History
21-44 unknown view
Chapter III. The People
45-57 unknown view
Chapter IV. Public Health
58-67 unknown view
Chapter V. Agriculture
68-75 unknown view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
76-81 unknown view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
82-87 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trade
88-105 unknown view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
106-110 unknown view
Chapter X. Lane Revenue Administration
111-123 unknown view
Chapter XI. General Administration
124-130 unknown view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
131-134 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Education
135-138 unknown view
Chapter XVI. Gazteer
139-176 unknown view
Index
177-i unknown view