A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume 18Trübner & Company, 1877 - Bengal (India) |
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acres cultivated Amount Price Amount ánnás average number Baitaraní Balasor District bará Bay of Bengal Bengal Bhadrakh biálí rice Birúpá Bráhmans Calcutta canal caste Census Census Report cent channel chaukídárs chief villages classes coast Collector Commissioner comprising a total convicted crop Cuttack District Dhámrá distributaries District population exports False Point famine febrifuge feet females floods Government hereditary hill Hindu hundredweight irrigation jail Jájpur Jaleswar jungle kánúngos Kátjurí Kendrápárá Khandáits kilá Kujang labour land revenue Mahánadí males in total Marhattá maunds ment Midnapur múg Mughul Muhammadans mukaddams Musalmáns native offences officers Orissa parganá persons tried police port Price Amount Price proportion of males Province Purí quit-rent Rájá rayats rent returned rice land river sarbaráhkárs sers per rupee Settlement Sivaite sown square miles Statistical Account Subdivision Subdivisional supply táluks tenures thánás thání total area total number town tracts trade Tributary twelve uncultivable Uriyá weir zamindár ΙΟ
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Page 171 - earliest glimpses at Orissa disclose an unexplored maritime kingdom, stretching from the mouth of the Ganges to the mouth of the Krishna. It was a long narrow strip of coast, everywhere shut out from the Indian continent by a wide terra incognita of mountains and forests. Under the name of Kalinga, it
Page 161 - The mortality may be said to have reached its culminating point at the beginning of the second week of August, during the heavy rains which preceded, and caused, the disastrous floods of this same year. The people were then in the lowest stage of exhaustion; the emaciated crowds collected at the
Page 39 - accumulation of sand in the river bed, and to secure a supply of water for the canals, the sluices are left open during the flood season, and closed as the river subsides. Of the four canals which form the Orissa irrigation system, two take off from the
Page 20 - estuary, which separate it from Balasor District; on the east by the Bay of Bengal; on the south by Puri District; and on the west by the
Page 173 - Several are shaped into strange distorted resemblances of animals. One has from time immemorial been known as the Snake Cave, another as the Elephant Cave, a third as the Tiger Cave. This last stands out from the rock in the form of a monstrous wild beast's jaw, with nose and eyes above, and
Page 82 - supporting a flagstaff. This feature, combined with the loftiness of the battlements on the river face, gives to the edifice an imposing castellated appearance; so much so that the whole, when seen from the opposite bank of the Mahanadi, presented to the imagination of
Page 82 - towers, having the sides inclining inwards from the base to the summit. A noble ditch faced with masonry surrounds the whole, measuring in the broadest part 220 feet across. From the centre
Page 81 - years ago by one of the kings of the Long-haired or Lion dynasty, and has continued to be the seat of government to the present day. Its position as the key of the hill territory, and as the centre of the network of the Orissa canals, gives it both military and commercial importance. At present, however, Cuttack is mainly known in the world for its beautiful
Page 124 - recorded all circumstances within their sphere which concerned landed property and the realization of the revenue, keeping registers of the value, tenure, extent, and transfers of lands, assisting in the
Page 182 - (2) The narrow strip, with the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, running south from the