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The Imperial Gazetteer of India Singhbhum to Trashi-Chod-Zong

1908

Singhbharn (` the land of the Singh family' of PORAHAT) comprises the Government estate of the KOLHAN in the south-east the revenupaying estate of Dhalbhfim (Dhal being the zamindar's patronymic) in the east and the revenue-free estate Physical of Poraha in the west while the States of SARAIKELA aspects. [...] At one time the Raja of Singhbhum owned also the country now included in the States of Saraikela and Kharsawan and claimed an unacknowledged suzerainty over the Kolhan ; but SARAIKELA and KHARSAWAN with the dependent maintenance grants of Dugni and Bankshahi were assigned to junior members of the family and in time the chief of Saraikela became a dangerous rival of the head of the clan. [...] They joined the lidgpur Kols or Mundas in the rebellion of 1831-2 and Sir Thomas Wilkinson who was then appointed Agent to the GovernoGeneral for the newly formed non-regulation province of the SoutWestern Frontier at once recognized the necessity of a thorough subjugation of the Hos and at the same time the impolicy and futility of forcing them to submit to the chiefs. [...] due in part to the inaccuracy of the earlier censuses but a great deal of it is real ; the climate is healthy and the inhabitants are prolific and the country has been developed by the opening of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. [...] Sirhind Canal.—A perennial canal in the Punjab taking off from the Sutlej and irrigating the high land between the Sutlej on the nortwest and the Patiala and Ghaggar streams on the south-east and etending as far south as the borders of Rajputana Bahawalpur and the Bikaner State.
government politics public policy
Pages
442
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Introductory Notes
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Imperial Gazetteer of India
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