Census 1951 West Bengal: District Handbooks: Murshidabad

The portion of the Radcliffe and Bagge Awards which concerns the definition of the boundary of the district is reproduced below : (a) The Radcliffe Award: The line shall then turn south-east down the river Ganges along the boundary between the districts of Malda and Murshidabad ; Rajshahi and Murshidabad ; Rajshahi and Nadia ; to the point in the north-western corner of the district of Nadia where [...] Amentioned boundary and of the boundary following the course of the midstream of the main channel of the river Ganges as determined on the date of demarcation and not as it was on the date of the award. [...] The point of the off-take of the river Mathabhanga shall be connected by a straight and shortest line with a point in the midstream of the main channel of the river Ganges tIr said latter point being ascertained as on the date of the award or if not possible as on the date of the demarcation of the boundary line in Dispute I. The said point so ascertained shall be the south-easternmost point of t [...] The most important of them are the Hijal bil at the confluence of the Mor and Dwarka west of the Bhagirathi in Kandi subdivision and the Kalantar bil a vast swamp of rich soil formed in the south-east of the district of the Gobra nullah the * The Kasimbazar Raj Calcutta R 'vieze Vol. [...] "Behind the kitchen and near the tank is the sarkuda or the dust-heap of the family which is a large hole not very deep into which the sweepings of the yard the ashes of the kitchen the refuse of the cohouse and all sorts of vegetable matter are thrown.