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Bengal District Gazetteers Nadia

1910

It takes its name from the town of Nadia or Nabadwip situated at present on the west bank of the Bhagirathi but the administrative head-quarters and chief city of the district (although not the most populous) is Krishnagar on the Jalangi river in latitude 23° 24' N. and longitude 88° 31' E. The district is separated on the north from the districts of BounPabna and Rb.jshahi by the Padma or G [...] Thomas Oldham recorded in the proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1870 page 47 may be quoted :— I suppose no one will hesitate to acknowledge that the whole of the country including the Sunderban proper lying between the Booghly on the west and the Meghna on the east is only the delta caused by the deposition of the debris carried down by the rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra and thei [...] It is also certain that in this peculiar delta the general course of the main waters of the Ganges has gradually tracked from the west towards the east until of late years the larger body of the waters of the Ganges have united with those of the Brahmaputra and have together proceeded to the sea as the Ileghnd. [...] If this progress eastwards was allowed to be sufficiently slow to admit of the gradual filling in of the country adjoining the delta was formed continuously up to the same general level and the larger streams or channels passing through this flat to the sea became unavoidably diminished in size and in the quantity and force of the water they carried the main body passing around further to the [...] The whole district is a net work of moribund rivers and streams but the Bhagirathi the Jalangi and the Mätabhanga are the three which have been for more than a century and still are distinctively known as the "Nadia Rivers." Until the advent of the railways these watercourses afforded the regular means of communication between the upper valley of the Ganges and the seaboard.
government politics public policy
Pages
211
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xii J. H. E. Garrett view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-21 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter II. History
22-38 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter III. The People
39-56 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter IV. Public Health
57-66 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter V. Agriculture
67-73 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
74-81 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
82-90 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trades
91-96 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
97-103 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Administration
104-114 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XI. General Administration
115-121 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
122-129 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XIII. Education
130-135 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XIV. Christian Missions
136-148 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XV. The Nadia Raj
149-163 J.H.E Garrett view
Chapter XVI. Gazetteer
164-194 J.H.E Garrett view
Index
195-199 J.H.E Garrett view