A Statistical Account of Bengal: Districts of the 24 Parganas and SundarbansTrübner & Company, 1875 |
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24 Parganás able to read Achipur acre Alípur amounted assessed income average number Bárásat Barrackpur Barrackpur Cantonment Báruipur Basurhát Bay of Bengal bázár bighá boats Bráhmans Canal caste Census cent Collector consists contains crop cultivators dealers Diamond Harbour District Dum-dum estates exclusive of Calcutta expenditure feet females Fiscal Division Government háths head constable Hindus Húglí hundredweight inches Jail Jainagar Jamuná Jessor Jessor District jungle jute Kabadak Kaibarttas Kshattriyas Kulin labourers land revenue landholder males mandal Matlá maund Muhammadans municipal income Musalmáns Nadiyá native number of persons officers Orissa paddy pán Parganás in 1872 Police Circles Railway Rájá read and write rent returned Revenue Survey Report Revenue Surveyor rice river road Ságar Island Sátkhirá sellers South Suburban square miles station Statistical Account Subdivision Subordinate Judge's Court Suburbs of Calcutta Súdra Sundarbans teetotum tenures total number total population trade tree Vaishnavs Vaisya zamindárs
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Page 65 - Brescia, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century, and died 1510, at Bergamo, at a very advanced age.
Page 84 - November) to the Cantonment with two European regiments, a battery of European artillery, and a troop of the Governor-General's Bodyguard. The mutinous regiment \\af drawn up in face of these troops, and was ordered to march or ground arms.
Page 101 - Chandhu family, who at one time owned considerable estates in this part of the country, cleared the jungle, built the temple, and allotted 194 acres of land for its maintenance. A man of the name of Chandibar was the first priest appointed to manage the affairs of the temple. His descendants have now taken the title of Haldar, and are at present the proprietors of the building.
Page 106 - Similar leases were granted to other individuals ; but the scheme failed, and the island is still covered with dense jungle, and infested with tigers and wild beasts. Salt manufacture was conducted on the island for some time, but has been discontinued. The Sdgar Island lighthouse was commenced in 1808. Although now almost uninhabited, Sdgar Island is said to have been once well peopled. An article, entitled ' Calcutta in the Olden Time,' Calcutta Review, No. xxxvi., states that, 'two years before...
Page 86 - ... force them to use the obnoxious cartridges, or treat them like their comrades that were marching down from Berhampore to be disgraced. So the great terror that was driving them into rebellion grew stronger and stronger, and as from mouth to mouth passed the significant words, " Gora-logue aya" —
Page 332 - He may cut it and burn it down, but it will spring up again almost as thick as ever ; and it takes about three eradications to expel this reed when once it has grown. The soil, too, must be cultivated for ten or twelve years before it loses this tendency to at once cover itself with reed-jungle.
Page 104 - The Mela lasts several days, but three days are the limit of the religious festival. The first ceremony is the propitiation of the ocean, by casting into it various offerings, with short ejaculatory prayers ; the oblations are commonly cocoa-nuts, fruits, or flowers; the most appropriate gift is that of the five gems...
Page 105 - ... manager of the temple. This reservoir was probably filled from the tank, and kept full by the contrivances of the mendicants , who persuaded the people that it was a perpetual miracle, being constantly full for the use of the temple. On the second and third days of the assemblage, bathing in the sea,- adoration of Ganga, and the worship of Kapila, continue as on the first; after which the meeting breaks up.
Page 38 - In a memorandum appended to the Police Report of Mr. Henry Shakespeare, Superintendent of Police in the Lower...
Page 252 - Government donation being ^48 ; the expenditure amounted to ^80, 19s. 10d., leaving a balance in hand at the end of the year of .£13, 2s.