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Bengal District Gazetteers. Nadia

1910

Thomas Oldham recorded in the proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1870 page 47 may be quoted :- I suppose no one will hesitate to acknowledge that the whole of the country including the Sunderban proper 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 [...] 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 Brahmapurta and have together proceeded to the sea as the Meghna. [...] NADIA RIVERS The whole district is a net work of moribund rivers and streams but the Bhagirathi the Jalangi and the Matabhanga are the three which have been for more than a century and still are distinctively known as the Nadia Rivers." Until the advent of the railways these watercourses afforded the regular means of communication between the upper valley of the Ganges and the seaboard. [...] The force of the current in the centre of the channel is at the same time gradually cutting and bearing down stream the sand in its course so that by these two actions the depth is increased in the channel enclosed by the bandhal while on each side of it towards the bank large collections of sand take place materially narrowing and deepening the stream. [...] According to the references in the Mahabharata the Raghubansa and some of the Puranas the delta lay on the boundary between two powerful kingdoms namely Suhma corresponding to Western Bengal and Vanga or Eastern Bengal and it is probable that the Nadia district was under the control of the kingdom of Vanga in the time of the Raghubansa i.e.

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Pages
274
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xviii J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter 1. Physical Aspects
1-28 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter II. History
29-50 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter III. The People
51-74 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter IV. Public Health
75-86 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter V. Agriculture
87-95 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
96-105 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
106-116 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trades
117-125 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
126-134 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Administration
135-148 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XI. General Administration
149-158 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
159-169 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XIII. Education
170-176 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XIV. Christian Missions
177-192 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XV. The Nadia Raj
193-211 J.H.E. Garrett view
Chapter XVI. Gazetteer
212-251 J.H.E. Garrett view
Index
252-256 J.H.E. Garrett view

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