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Ganges or Padma, of which all the remaining rivers of the district are offshoots. The Bhagirathi on the eastern border, and the Jalangi and the Matabhanga meandering through the centre of the district, are the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief of those offshoots, called distinctively the " Nadia rivers." But the whole surface of 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 interlaced with a network of See also:

minor streams, communicating with one another by See also:

side channels. All the rivers are navigable in 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 for boats of the largest burthen, but during the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the See also:

YEAR

year they dwindle down to shallow streams, with dangerous sandbanks and bars. In former times the Nadia rivers afforded the See also:

REGULAR

regular means of communication between the upper valley of the Ganges and the seaboard; and much of the See also:

trade of the district still comes down to See also:

CALCUTTA

Calcutta by this route during the height of the rainy season. But the See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, with the main stream of the Ganges and the See also:

SUNDARBANS, or SUNDEBBUNDS

Sundarbans route, now carry by far the larger portion of the See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic. See also:

Rice is the See also:

STAPLE

staple See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop; but the district is not as a whole fertile, the See also:

SOIL

soil being sandy and the methods of cultivation backward.

It is traversed by the main See also:

LINE

line and also by several branches of the Eastern Bengal railway. The battlefield of See also:

PLASSEY (Palasi)

Plassey was situated in this district, but the floods of the Bhagirathi have washed away some See also:

PART

part of it.

End of Article: NADIA, or NUDDEA

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