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