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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 840 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOWRAH , a See also:

city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Burdwan See also:division of See also:Bengal. The city is situated opposite See also:Calcutta, with which it is connected by a floating See also:bridge. The municipal See also:area is about 11 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 157,594, showing an increase of 35 % in the See also:decade. Since 1872 the See also:population has almost doubled, owing to the See also:great See also:industrial development that has taken See also:place. Howrah is the See also:terminus of the See also:East See also:Indian railway, and also of the Bengal-See also:Nagpur and East See also:Coast lines. It is also the centre of two See also:light See also:railways which run to Amta and Sheakhala. Further, it is the headquarters of the jute-manufacturing See also:industry, with many See also:steam See also:mills, steam presses, also The See also:book is still of See also:interest, especially for its descriptive passages, which were mostly done by See also:Howson; but later researches (such us those of See also:Sir W. M. See also:Ramsay) have made the See also:geographical and See also:historical sections obsolete, and the same may be said of the treatment of the Pauline See also:theology.

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