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RANGPUR, or RUNGPORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 892 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANGPUR, or RUNGPORE , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Rajshahi See also:division of Eastern See also:Bengal and See also:Assam. The town is situated on the little See also:river Ghaghat. Pop. (19or) 15,96o. There are a high school, a normal school and an See also:industrial school. The See also:earthquake of the 12th of See also:June 1897 destroyed many of the public buildings and diverted the drainage channels. The DISTRICT OF RANGPUR, with an See also:area of 3493 sq. m., is one vast See also:plain. The greater See also:part of it, particularly towards the See also:east, is inundated during the rains, and the See also:remainder is traversed by a network of streams which frequently break through their sandy See also:banks and plough for themselves new channels over the See also:fields. The river See also:system is constituted by the See also:Brahmaputra and its tributaries, See also:chief of which are the See also:Tista, Dharla, Sankos and Dudhkumar. The See also:climate is generally malarious, owing to the numerous stagnant swamps and marshes filled with decaying See also:vegetable See also:matter. The See also:annual rainfall averages 82 in. About three-fourths of the district is under continuous cultivation.

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land can hardly be said to exist—even the patches of See also:waste land yield a valuable See also:tribute of reeds and See also:cane. The See also:staple crops are See also:rice, oil-seeds, jute and See also:tobacco. In See also:tool the See also:population was 2,154,181, showing an increase of 4.3% in the See also:decade. Nearly two-thirds are Mahommedans. The Eastern Bengal railway has two branches, one of which crosses the district to the Brahmaputra, and the other runs See also:north towards Assam. The See also:tract comprised within the district of Rangpur was formerly the western outpost of the See also:ancient See also:Hindu See also:kingdom of See also:Kamrup, which appears to have attained its greatest See also:power and prosperity under See also:Raja Nilambar, who was treacherously over-thrown by See also:Ala-uddin Hosain of Bengal at the See also:close of the 15th See also:century. Rangpur passed to the East India See also:Company in 1765 under the See also:firman of the See also:emperor Shah Alam. Since then a See also:great number of changes have taken See also:place in the See also:jurisdiction, in See also:con-sequence of which the district area has been much diminished.

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