Government of Bengal Final Report on the Survey and Settlement of the District of 24 Parganas for the period 1924 - 1933

In 1802 all timbals of the 24--1'arglinas on the western side of the river Hooghly were transferred from Nadia as it suited the convenience of the auction pureliamor. [...] The smfthern rut of the sudivision presents all the typical features of halformed land through which the estuaries of the Ganges find their way to the sea. [...] The Hooghly is the name of the western branch of the (lenges from the junction of the Bhagirnthi and ‘Talangi VIM'S in Nan'. [...] The problems et;f rivers in the 24-Parganast The tides play no portant part in shaping the problems of the fivers of lids district. [...] Ponds are practically unknown in the Sundarbluis 'and the waterways are the only means of equniuiications with outside world the embankments are the chief moans of communications within the blocks of lands.