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Bengal District Gazetteers. Burdwan

1910

A small portion of the Katwa subdivision lies to the north of the Ajay and the Khandaghosh and Raina thanas of the head-quarters subdivision lie to the south of the Damodar which here takes a sharp bend to the north-east. [...] The larger streams within the district are the Kunur a tributary of the Ajay the Nunia and Singaran which drain the Asansol subdivision and the Banka and Khari which flow into the Bhagirathi. [...] The Damodar embankments having closed all the old side channles of the river it was excavated in order to supply drinking water to the town of Burdwan and to scour out the old channels leading from the Damodar the silting up of which was supposed to be one of the principal causes of the outbreak of the Burdwan fever. [...] Beyond lay the country formed by the uncertain and ever-changing courses through the silt of the Damodar the Ajay and the Ganges which on the British accession was found to be the richest tract in Bengal and the area of its oldest and most settled cultivation. [...] The Aguris by their own admission are the product of unions between the Khetris of the house of Burdwan and the Sadgops of the Gopbhum dynasty and the caste arose within the last two hundred years.
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Pages
337
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xxi J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter I Physical Aspects
1-22 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter II History
23-51 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter III The People
52-97 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter IV Public Health
98-110 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter V Agriculture
111-126 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter VI Natural Calamities
127-137 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter VII Rent Wages and Prices
138-150 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter VIII Occupations Manufactures and Trade
151-164 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter IX The Raniganj Coal Field
165-174 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter X Means of Communication
175-184 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter XI Land Revenue Administration
185-203 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter XII General Administration
204-211 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter XIII Local Self-Government
212-220 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter XIV Education
221-234 J.C.K. Peterson view
Chapter XV Gazetteer
235-262 J.C.K. Peterson view
Appendix Some Historical and ethnical Aspects of the Burdwan District
263-304 W.B. Oldham view
Index
305-315 J.C.K. Peterson view
Map
i-i J.C.K. Peterson view

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