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Bengal District Gazetteers. Murshidabad

1914

On the west the land slopes somewhat abruptly upwards marking the boundary of the true Rarh while to the east a narrow line of high countr forms the western bank of the Bhagirathi and culminates in the cliff of Rtinga mati. [...] 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. [...] The result was that the channel of the Jalangi began to close up above the point of junction and the Bhairab is now the main channel by which the Jalangi obtains its supply from the Ganges. [...] 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 deposdon of the debris carried down by the rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra and their tributaries. [...] wards 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.
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Pages
238
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-18 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter II. History
19-68 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter III. The People
69-80 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter IV. Public Health
81-96 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter V. Agriculture
97-107 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter VI. Natural Calamities
108-119 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter VII. Rents Wages and Prices
120-123 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter VIII. Industries Manufactures and Trade
124-149 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter IX. Means of Communication
150-154 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter X. Land Revenue Administration
155-163 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter XI. General Administration
164-166 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter XII. Local Self-Government
167-168 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIII. Education
169-172 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Chapter XIV. Gazetteer
173-226 L. S. S. O’Malley view
Index
227-231 L. S. S. O’Malley view