Online Encyclopedia

wild beasts, and from this the town derives its name. Pop. (1901) 15,811. The cantonments were abandoned in 1863. The district of Gonda has an See also:

AREA

area of 2813 sq. m. It consists of a vast See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain with very slight undulations, studded with groves of See also:

MANGO

mango trees. The See also:

SURFACE

surface consists of a See also:

rich alluvial See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit which is naturally divided into three See also:

GREAT

great belts known as the See also:

TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist land ")

tarai or swampy See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract, the uparhar or uplands, and the tarhar or wet lowlands, all three being marvellously fertile. Several See also:

rivers flow through the district, but only two, the See also:

GOGRA, or GHAGRA

Gogra and Rapti, are of any commercial importance, the first being navigable throughout .the See also:

YEAR

year, and the latter during the See also:

RAINY, ROBERT (1826-1906)

rainy See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season. The See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is dotted with small lakes, the See also:

WATER

water of which is largely used for See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation.

On the outbreak of the See also:

Mutiny in 1857, the See also:

RAJA

raja of Gonda, after honourably escorting the See also:

government treasure to Fyzabad, joined the rebels. His estates, along with those of the rani of Tulsipur, were confiscated, and conferred as rewards upon the maharajas of See also:

BALRAMPUR

Balrampur and See also:

AJODHYA

Ajodhya, who had remained loyal. In 1901 the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was 1,403,195, showing a decrease of 4% in one See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade. The district is traversed by the See also:

main See also:

LINE

line and three branches of the Bengal & North-Western railway.

End of Article: GONDA

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.

» Add information or comments to this article.

Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML.

Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.

Links to articles and home page are always encouraged.

[back]
GONCOURT, DE

[next]
GONDAL