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Bengal District Gazetteers Hooghly

1912

the Hooghly forming the eastern boundary the birnodar separating the Serapore sutdivisign from the Arimbiigh thrtna the Datvalakeswar forming the dividing line between the latter and* the Goght-it thana and its continuation the Riipnäräyan forming the soutwestern boundary for many miles. [...] Among them may be mentioned the Behula the Kan& the Kunti Nadi (also called the Magra Khal or Min& Nadi) the SaraswatIthe Kausiki the Kantul with the Gopalnagar tlfe Khiit with the Julka the Mina Damodar Madiiria the Resit' or Sanokibhängä th2 Mundewari the liana Dwarakeswar the Sinkrä the Jhumjhumi the Amodar and the Tardjuli. [...] In both the survey map and the embankment map of 1854 the present course is entered together with the bifurcation of the river into the Jhumjhumi and the Sankra low er down ; while the old kand is made to join the Mundeswari above Chingria and then ruining souteast fall into the Danfodar Khal. [...] 19 marsh between the Ghia and the liana Nadi the Dankuni marsh between the Hooghly and the Saraswati which is now drained by the Dankuni drainage channel and the marsh between the Damodar Khal and the liana Dwarakeswar if thana Khanakul. [...] The country inland has also been built up by silt deposits the eastern part by deposits from the Hooghly the western part of the Hooghly and Serampore subdivisions by deposits from the Damodar and thanas Arambagh and Khanakul by theieombined deposits of the Damodar the Mundeswari and the DwartIkeswar.
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Pages
343
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Frontmatter
i-xii L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter I.—Physical Aspects
1-24 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter II.—History
25-42 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter III.—Early European Settlements
43-91 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter IV.—The People
92-109 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter V.—Christian Missions
110-124 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter VI.—Public Health
125-134 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter VII.—Agriculture
135-149 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter VIII.—Natural Calamities
150-158 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter IX.—Canals Drainage and Embankments
159-166 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter X.—Rents Wages and Prices
167-175 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XI.—Occupations Industries and Trade
176-193 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XII.—Means of Communication
194-205 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XIII.—Land Revenue Administration
206-215 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XIV.—General Administration
216-221 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XV.—Local Self-Government
222-229 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XVI.—Education
230-242 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Chapter XVII.—Gazetteer
243-324 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view
Index
325-330 L.S.S. O'Malley, Monmohan Chakravarti view