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NOAKHALI

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOAKHALI , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Chittagong See also:division of eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. The town, also known as Sudharam, is on a small See also:river channel ro m. fromthe See also:sea. Pop (1901) 6520. The DISTRICT OF NOAKHALI has an See also:area of 1644 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 1,141,728. The district consists of an alluvial See also:tract of mainland, together with several islands at the mouth of the See also:Meghna. In See also:general, each See also:home-See also:stead is surrounded by a thick See also:grove of betel- and coco-See also:nut palms, and in the See also:north-western tracts dense forests of betel-nut palms extend for See also:miles. See also:Rice is the See also:great See also:staple of cultivation; The district is very fertile; and, with the exception of some sandbanks and See also:recent accretions, every See also:part of it is under continuous cultivation. The See also:process of See also:alluvion is gradually but steadily going on, the mainland extending seawards. Noakhali is peculiarly liable to destructive floods from the sea, generally caused by southerly See also:gales or cyclones occurring at the See also:time when the Meghna is swollen by heavy rains, and at See also:flood-tides—the tidal See also:bore being sometimes 20 ft. high, and moving at the See also:rate of 15 m. an See also:hour. The See also:cyclone and See also:storm-See also:wave of the 3Ist of See also:October 1876 was terribly disastrous, sweeping over the whole See also:delta of the Meghna. The loss of human See also:life was estimated at roo,000.

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east of the district is served by the Assam-Bengal railway. The See also:Mahommedan See also:population of the islands at the mouth of the Meghna practised piracy up to a comparatively recent date, and at the beginning of the 17th See also:century Portuguese pirates, under See also:Sebastian Gonzales, occupied Sandwip. They were ultimately reduced to subjection by Shaista See also:Khan, the See also:governor of Bengal, about the See also:middle of the century; and their descendants have sunk to the level of the natives surrounding them, whose See also:dress, customs and See also:language they have, for the most part, adopted. They are Christians, and retain che old Portuguese names. About 1756 the East India See also:Company established factories in Noakhali and See also:Tippera, the ruins of some of which still remain.

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