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Bengal District Gazetteers Shahabad

1906

The district is bounded on the north by BouGhazipur and Bailie in the United Provinces and by Saran in darieu Bengal ; on the east by the districts of Patna and Gaya ; on the south by Palamau; and on the west by the districts of Mirzapur and Ghazipur the United Provinces. [...] On the north the boundary is marked by the Ganges and on the east by the Son the two rivers uniting in the north-eastern corner of the district. [...] There are several varieties of deer ; the sanibar (Germs ?wieder) chiefly frequents the gorges of the table-land; spotted deer and black buck are met with iu the plains the former princpally in the plains adjacent to the hills and the latter in large herds on the open country in the central zone of the district ; and the-hog deer (Ccrrus axis) is found in the jungle growth onthe hills and in t [...] nough he admits that there were still some priests who reverenced the doctrine of the Great Vehicle the whole account of the Chinese pilgrim giveg a melancholy impression of the decay of the Buddhist faith; the beater part of this stilpa Was even then buried in the earth; the disciples of the unbelievers had endeavoured to remove the stone on which Buddha preached to the demons ; and not far off [...] In the Sair-uMutkkharia we find a brief notice of Somru's management of Buxar which is worthy of mention as giving an insight into both the state of the country and the methods of the man who was guilty of the massacre of the English at Patna.
government politics public policy
Pages
187
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.146358
Segment Pages Author Actions
Chapter Frontmatter
vii-xiv S. S. O’malley view
Chapter I. Physical Aspects
1-16 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter II. History
17-30 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter III. The People
31-42 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter IV. Public Health
43-48 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter V. Agriculture and Forests
49-59 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter VI. Irrigation
60-70 J.C.S. view
Chapter VII. Natural Calamities
71-79 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter VIII. Rents Wages and Prices
80-91 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter IX. Occupations Manufactures and Trade
92-97 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter X. Means of Communication
98-101 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter XI. Land Revenue Administration
102-110 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter XII. General Administration
111-117 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter XIII. Local Self-Government
118-122 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter XIV. Education
123-124 S. S. O’malley view
Chapter XV. Gazetteer
125-164 S. S. O’malley view
Appendix
165-170 S. S. O’malley view
Index
171-178 S. S. O’malley view
Map
i-i S. S. O’malley view