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Bihar and Orissa District Gazetteers Saran

1930

The district is a wedge of alluvial soil thrust in between the Ganges Gogra and G-andak rivers The Gandak seprates it on the north-east from the district of Champaran and on the south-east from Muzaffarpur ; on the south the Ganges forms the boundary dividing it from the Patna and Shahabad districts while the western and north=western boundaries march with the United Provinces. [...] The Gogra running parallel with the Gandak meets the Ganges a few miles from Chapra and forms the boundary between Saran and the Ballia district on the south-west while an irregular base-line drawn north-east from the Gogra to the Gandak constitutes the western -and north-western boundary between this district and the Gorakhpur district of the United Provinces. [...] The base which very irregular and is about 90 miles in length lies towards the north-west ; the sides are formed by the Gandak 95 miles long and by the Gogra and the Ganges which also have a combined length of about 95 miles; and the apex is formed by the junction of the Gandak and the Ganges towards Sonepur at the south-east corner. [...] General Cunningham was of opinion that Hiuen Tsiang must have crossed the Ganges above Revelganj a specially holy spot near the confluence of the Ganges and the Gogra and would identify the latter place with the site of the temple of Narayan or Vishnu. [...] The Gogra now formed the boundary between the territory of the kings of Bengal and the Emperors of Delhi but this outlying portion of the dominions of the former appears to have been wrested from them in 1397 by the kings of Jaunpur who ruled over it for another century.
government politics public policy
Pages
194
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Frontmatter
i-iii L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-16 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter II. History
17-34 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter III. The People
35-49 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter IV. Public Health
50-54 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter V. Agriculture
55-67 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
68-76 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
77-85 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter VIII. Occupations Manufactures and Trades
86-92 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
93-101 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Administration
102-112 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter XI. General Administration
113-120 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
121-124 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter XIII. Education
125-129 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Chapter XIV. Gazetteer
130-177 L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view
Index
i-xi L.S.S. O’Malley, A.P. Middleton view