The Imperial Gazetteer of India Samadhiala to Singhana

In order to provide a remedy for the heavy loss caused to the Government of India in respect of its gold payments to be made in England and also to relieve foreign trade and finance from the inconvenience due to constant and unforeseen fluctuations in exchange it was resolved in 1893 to close the mints to the free coinage of silver and thus force up the value of the rupee by restricting the cir [...] It is bounded on the north by the Gangpur State of Bengal ; on the east by the States of Bamra and Rairakhol ; on the south by Patna Sonpur and Rairakhol States ; and on the west by the Raipur and Bilaspur Districts of the Central Provinces. [...] The land round Sambalpur town and a strip running along the north bank of the Mahanadi to the confines of Bilaspur District is the most productive being fairly level while the country over the greater part of the Bargarh tahsil has a very decided slope and is much cut up by ravines and watercourses. [...] It is situated on the Barapahar hills in the north of the Bargarh tahsil and on the ranges in the west and south-west of the Sambalpur Forests. [...] Occupancy right was conferred on all tenants except sub-tenants of bhogrd. The system was intended to restrict the power of alienation of land the grant of which had led to the expropriation of the agricultural by the money-lending castes and the same policy has recently received expression in the Central Provinces Tenancy Act of 1898.