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Government of West Bengal. Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the District of 24-Paraganas. For the period 1924-1933

1936

The southern part of the sudivision presents all the typical features of half-formed land through which the eltuaries of the Ganges find their way to the sea. [...] In the northern area the tracts along the banks of the Hooghly are salubrious owing to better drainage the comparative absence of noxious undergrowth and the sea breeze which blows almost continuously during the south-west monsoon. [...] (2) The Kulgachi Bil situated to the west of Balinda in the centre of the insular portion surrounded by the Bidyadhari river and the Katakhal. [...] (5) and (6) The Balli and DIntbhanga Bils the former containing ten and the latter.twelve square miles are also sitated east of the Jamuna and to the north of the Bayra Bil. [...] Roads are practically unknown in the Sundarbans and the waterways are the only means of commtinications with outside world the embankments are the chief means of communications within the blocks of lands.
government politics public policy
Pages
257
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144559
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii Anil Lahiri view
Frontmatter
i-v Anil Lahiri view
Chapter I. The district
1-15 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter II. The People
15-21 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter III. Economic condition of the people
21-28 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter IV. The employment of the land
28-37 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter V. Agriculture
37-47 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter VI. Inustries
47-56 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter VII. Fiscal History
56-68 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter VIII. System of Land Tenure
68-75 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter IX. Division of land according to legal interests
75-82 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter X. The present operations
82-102 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XI. Chapter dealing with special interests
102-105 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XII. Revenue History of the Sundarbans
105-122 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XIII. Revision of rents revenue and diara resumptions
122-135 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XIV. Forest and Salt Administration 24-Parganas
135-139 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XV. Financial Analysis
139-143 Anil Lahiri view
Chapter XVI. Conclusions
143-148 Anil Lahiri view
Appendices
149-214 Anil Lahiri view
Maps
i-iv Anil Lahiri view
Department of Land Records and Surveys Bengal
215-219 Anil Lahiri view
Index
i-ii Anil Lahiri view
Backmatter
1-v Anil Lahiri view