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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 431 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PABNA, or PUBNA

PABNA, or PUBNA , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

RAJSHAHI

Rajshahi See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of Eastern See also:

Bengal and See also:

ASSAM

Assam. The town is situated on the See also:

RIVER

river Ichhamati, near the old See also:

bed of the See also:

GANGES (GANGA)

Ganges. Pop. (lgor), 18,424. The district of Pabna has an See also:

AREA

area of 1839 sq. m. Pop (19o1), 1,420,461, showing an increase of 4.8% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade. It is bordered along its entire See also:

east See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face by the See also:

main stream of the See also:

BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra or Jamuna, and along its See also:

south-westface by the Ganges or Padma. It is entirely of alluvial origin, the silt of the See also:

ANNUAL

annual inundations overlying strata of See also:

clay on See also:

sand. Apart from the two See also:

GREAT

great bordering See also:

rivers, it is intersected by countless See also:

WATER

water-channels of varying magnitude, so that 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 every See also:

VILLAGE

village is accessible by See also:

BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat and by boat only. Almost the whole area is one See also:

green See also:

rice-See also:

field, ,the See also:

UNIFORM

uniform level being broken only by clumps of bamboos and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit-trees, which conceal the village sites. The district is a See also:

MODERN

modern creation of British See also:

RULE

rule, being first formed out of Rajshahi district in 1832, and possesses no See also:

HISTORY

history of its own. The two See also:

STAPLE

staple crops are rice and jute.

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SIRAJGANJ

Sirajganj, on the Brahmaputra, is the largest mart for jute in Bengal. The Eastern Bengal railway cuts across the south-See also:

west corner of the district to Sara, where a See also:

BRIDGE

bridge crosses the Ganges. The district was affected by the See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of the 12th of See also:

JUNE

June 1897, which was most severely See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt at Sirajganj.

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