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Bengal District Gazetteers. Murshidabad

1914

The geological evidence proves to demonstration that the hard laterite soil formed an insuperable obstacle to the Ganges flowing further to the west than the present course of the Bhagirathi which is thus fixed as the limit of the Bengal alluvium and the ancient means of communication between the Bay of Bengal and the interior. [...] Thomas Oldham in an article published in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1870 : I suppose no one will hesitate to acknowledge that the whole of the country lying between the Hooghly 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 their tributaries. [...] 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 Meghna. [...] In the Riyazs-Salatin it is attributed to the central position of the town—an excellent site where news of all four quarters of the Subah could be easily procurable and which like the pupil of the eye was situate in the centre of the important places of the Subah" : a lengthy account of its advantages from a strategic and commercial point of view 1. A rupee of Aurangzeb preserved in the L [...] One of the chief articles in the petition presented by the English embassy at the Court of Delhi in 1716 was 'that the officers of the mint at Murshidabad should at all times when required allow three days in the week for the coinage of the English Company's money.' It was not till nearly half a century afterwards in 1757 as one of the results of the battle of Plassey that the English first
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Pages
269
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
23-80 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter III. The People
81-95 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IV. Public Health
96-113 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter V. Agriculture
114-125 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
126-139 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VII. Rent Wages and Prices
140-144 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VIII. Industries Manufactures and Trade
145-175 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
176-181 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Administration
182-192 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XI. General Administration
193-196 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
197-199 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIII. Education
200-204 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIV. Gazetteer
205-267 L.S.S. O’Malley view

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