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cargo boats. The drainage of Rajshahi is not carried off by means of its rivers, but through the chains of marshes and swamps, the most important of which is the Chalan bhil or See also:

lake, which discharges itself into the Brahmaputra. In 1901 the See also:

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

population was 1,462,407, showing an increase of 1.6% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade. 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, with pulses, oilseeds and jute. See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

Indigo has disappeared. Sericulture has received a stimulus from the efforts of the agricultural See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department, supported by private enterprise, to improve the breed of silkworms. The See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp grown on a small See also:

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

tract in the See also:

north of the district supplies all the ganja that is consumed in Bengal.

The district is traversed from south to north by the See also:

main line of the Eastern Bengal railway to See also:

DARJEELING

Darjeeling, with a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch to See also:

BOGRA, or BAGURA

Bogra. Most of the permanent buildings in the district were severely damaged by the See also:

EARTHQUAKE

earthquake of the 12th of See also:

JUNE

June 1897, When the See also:

East India See also:

COMPANY

Company took over the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of Bengal in 1765, the zamindari of Rajshahi or Nattor was one of the largest and most important in the province. It appears to have extended from See also:

BHAGALPUR

Bhagalpur on the west to See also:

DACCA

Dacca on the east, and to have included an important subdivision called Nij-Chakla Rajshahi on the south of the Ganges. The See also:

TOTAL

total area was estimated at 13,000 sq. m., or more than five times the See also:

SIZE

size of the See also:

PRESENT

present district. Having been found much too large to be effectually administered by one central authority, Rajshahi was stripped in 1793 of a considerable portion of its outlying territory, and a natural. boundary-line was See also:

DRAWN

drawn to the west, south and east along the Ganges and Brahmaputra. Its north-western limits were reduced in 18x3, when the present district of See also:

MALDA

Malda was constituted. The erection of Bogra into a See also:

SEPARATE

separate See also:

jurisdiction in 1821 still further reduced its area, and in 1832 the limits of Rajshahi were fixed by the constitution of See also:

PABNA, or PUBNA

Pabna into an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent jurisdiction. The DIVISION OF RAJSHAHI is coextensive with See also:

NORTHERN

northern Bengal, from the Ganges to the mountains. It comprises the seven districts of Rajshahi, See also:

DINAJPUR

Dinajpur, See also:

JALPAIGURI, or JULPIGOREE

Jalpaiguri, Malda, See also:

RANGPUR, or RUNGPORE

Rangpur, Bogra and Pabna. Total area, 18,091 sq. m. Pop. (1901) 9,130,072.

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