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Bengal District Gazetteers. 24 Parganas

1914

PHYSICAL ASPECTS 13 ESTUARIES The chief estuaries or arms of the sea from west to east are the Baratala or Channel Creek the Sabtarmukhi the Jamira the Matla the Guasuba and the Raimangal the last including the mouths of the Hariabhanga and Kalindi. [...] A part of the lake is in course of reclamation as it is slowly filling up with silt deposited by tidal channels from the Bidyadhari and also by the deposit of the street refuse of Calcutta (2) The Kulgachi Bil situated to the west of Balinda in the centre of the insular portion surrounded by the Bidyadhari river and the Katakhal. [...] 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 has united with those of the Brahmaputra and have together"PHYSICAL ASPECTS 21 proceeded to the sea as the Meghna. [...] CHAPTER II HISTORY EARLY HISTORY References to this portion of the Gangetic delta in the Mahabharata the Raghuvansa and some of the Puranas show that at the dawn of history it lay between the kingdom of the Suhmas in Western Bengal and that of the Vangas in Eastern Bengal the boundaries of which were ill-defined and varied according to the power of their kings. [...] At the time of the Raghuvansa the country appears to have been subject to the Vangas for that work tells of the defeat of the naval forces of the Vangas by Raghu who established pillars of victory on the isles in the midst of the Ganges." These islands in all probability represented the present area of the 24-Parganas which was still a fen-land intersected by rivers and full of morasses.
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Pages
433
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxiv L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter I Physical Aspects
1-31 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter II History
32-75 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter III The People
76-110 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IV Public Health
111-139 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter V Agriculture
140-155 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VI Drainage and Embankments
156-167 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VII Natural Calamities
168-178 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VIII Rents Wages and Prices
179-185 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IX Industries Manufactures and Trade
186-203 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter X Means of Communication
204-220 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XI Land Revenue Administration
221-241 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XII General Administration
242-253 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIII Local Self-Government
254-260 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIV Education
261-263 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XV Gazetteer
264-334 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Bengal District Gazetteer B. Volume 24-Parganas District Statistics 1900-1901 to 1910-1911
335-402 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Index
403-408 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Map
i-i L.S.S. O’Malley view

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