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Bengal District Gazetteers. Midnapore

1911

The most interesting places in this latter portion of the course of the Hooghly are Khejri (Kedgeree) which was formerly a reporting station for vessels the Cowcolly lighthouse the Hijili flat which stretches out from the shore below the Cowcolly lighthouse and the Hijili temple which stands 31/2 miles south-west of it on a point between the mouth of the Rasulpur river and the shore line. [...] The Kasai is embanked throughout the lower part pf its course; as a result of the embanking combined with the action of the tide and the large amount of silt it carries the bed of the river is silting up chiefly at the point up to which the tide flows. [...] Before the opening up of the district by railways and the destruction of the jungle which has accompanied extension of cultivation tiger leopard pig and deer were to be found in the eastern alluvial portion of the district especially near the mouths of the Haldi and other rivers. [...] CLIMATE The climate of the arid stretches in the north and west of the district is very different from that of the swamps in the east and south. [...] When the Muhammadan appeared on the scene they drove the Oriyas gradually southwards and for a considerable time the river Damodar was the boundary between the kingdoms of Bengal and Orissa Midnapore with the Arambagh subdivision of the Hooghly district forming the frontier of the latter kingdom.
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Pages
277
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-ii L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter I Physical Aspects
1-22 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter II History
23-57 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter III The People
58-90 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter IV Public Health
91-98 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter V Agriculture
99-108 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter VI Natural Calamities
109-119 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter VII Canals Drainage and Embankments
120-141 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter VIII Rents Wages and Prices
142-146 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter IX Mines Manufactures and Trade
147-156 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter X Means of Communication
157-162 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter XI Land Revenue Administration
163-177 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter XII General Administration
178-186 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter XIII Local Self-Government
187-192 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter XIV Education
193-199 L.S.S. O'Malley view
Chapter XV Gazetteer
200-275 L.S.S. O'Malley view

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