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Bengal District Gazetteers. Monghyr

1909

The latter which is included iu the.Pharkiya pargana or Gogri thana has an extensive block of high land in the north and a low riverain strip to the south ; but it is mainly a saucer-shaped depression the centre of which is inundated during the rains by the overflow of the rivers and for the rest of the year is full of marshy hollows. [...] To the east the river has several times shifted both to the bast and to the west of the rock on which the Monghyr fort stands alternately forming and washing away largo areas of (tiara lands ; but since the earliest times of which any record exists it has washed the base of the rock immediately to the north of the fort. [...] A second party will be soon digging up the undergound creeping stems of a water-lily or the sedge bulbs called in the vernacular ohichor which are eaten to give a flavour to the snails and crabs which the third party are engaged in securing.' Further to the west there is another chain of marshes all along the north-east of the Begusarai subdivision of which the most important is the Kabar Til [...] Nor does the feasting end with the day : bears pigs and deer have their turn during the night and many of thorn fall a victim to their fondness for the inahua flower being shot by the bullets of the foresters concealed among the branches overhead." North of the (1 tinges the older rocks are concealed by the alluvium of the (3angetic plain but south of the river the level of the land rises rap [...] The ancient stratified series assimilated with the Dharwars forms several hill groups situated between the southern gneissose area and the valley of the Ganges : these are the Kharagpur Hills the largest of the hill masses situated south of Monghyr and east of Lakhisarai the Sheikhpura Hills and the Gidhaur range situated respectively west and south of Lakhisarai.
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Pages
281
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiv L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-27 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter II. History
28-49 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter III. The People
50-73 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IV. Public Health
74-84 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter V. Agriculture
85-103 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
104-122 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
123-131 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trade
132-149 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
150-156 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Adiministration
157-176 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XI. General Administration
177-183 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
184-187 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIII. Education
188-191 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIV. Gazetteer
192-256 L.S.S. O’Malley view
Index
257-267 L.S.S. O’Malley view