A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume 12Trübner & Company, 1877 - Bengal (India) |
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Account of Patná acres amount ánnás Arrah Aurangábád average number bamboos Baxár Behar Benáres Bengal Bhabuá bighá Buddh Gaya called Census Census of 1872 Census Report cent Chausá chiefly classes Collector consists cotton cowries crops cultivation Dáúdnagar District of Gayá Dr Buchanan-Hamilton estates estimated expenditure exports feet females Ganges Gaya Gayá District Gayáwáls grain Grand Trunk Road hills Hindus Hiouen Thsang hundredweight inches irrigation Jahánábád jail jungle Kaimur Kayasth labour land revenue linseed low caste males manufacture maunds Monghyr month Muhammadans municipal Musalmán native Nawádá Nawádá Subdivision number of persons opium paddy parganá Patná District Phálgú pilgrim police circles proprietors Púnpún rabi crops Raghunathpur Rájá rent rice river rupee saltpetre Sásserám seed sers Sháhábád District Sherghátí Sinh Són sown square miles Statistical Account stone Subdivisional sugar tenure tháná Tikárí tons total number total population town village wheat
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Page 54 - ... slaves to do as they please, and to procure a subsistence in the best manner that they can.* Several masters in this situation having died without heirs, the slaves have become entirely free, no one claiming them. In Gaya and some other places the slaves are occasionally sold, and formerly usually fetched a rupee for each year of their age until they reached 20, when they are at their highest value ; but in general the price has risen, and in many parts has doubled. The allowance given to slaves...
Page 49 - Everything must now be sacrificed to holding the country and the occupation of a central position.
Page 198 - Khan's monument is an octagon of 53 feet in the shorter diameter. The wall all round the niche for prayer has been plastered, and covered with pious sentences written in black, and these perhaps extended all round the dome. The wall of this is 12 feet thick. The gallery round it is 9 feet wide, and the buttresses which support the arches in front are 6 feet square.
Page 88 - ... simple lever appliance like that illustrated in fig. 69. This consists of a long beam or bamboo working on an upright forked post, which serves as a fulcrum. At one end the beam is weighted by a stone, a mass of dried mud or a log ; at the other is a rope with a bucket attached. The rope is pulled down till the bucket is immersed ; as soon as the tension is relaxed, the weight attached to the lever raises the bucket. The water is then emptied into the channel leading to the field.
Page 69 - TheTabha of Gaya, has subcordate leaves, and a round fruit as large as a man's head, with an insipid juice. The Salhar or Salai of the Bhagalpur list, is one of the most common trees in the woods of Rajauli, where it is called Sali. I have already stated,* that Mr. Colebrooke considers this as the tree which produces olibanum or frankincense, and I have mentioned some difficulties that occur in adopting this...
Page 44 - ... the jealousy of government. It is occupied by many of his descendants, whom the subdivision of the property has reduced to indigence. His son Ahamud Khan built a real inn (saray) in the part of the town which has taken his name, that is, he allowed the inn-keepers (bhathiyaras) to build their huts by the sides of a long wide straight street, which he secured at each end by a mud gate, where a guard was placed to protect the traveller. The only other public buildings worth note are a small Imamvara...
Page 196 - ... Rohtds, as the rock on the top is surrounded by a rampart, and the monotony of the general outline is broken by bastions and turrets. The ascent to the principal gate on the north has been a broad but irregular stair, winding with short zig-zags. Dr. BuchananHamilton says that the zendnd-khdnd forms a long castle on the summit of the small hill on the south side of the fort, which when viewed from the north, resembles Durham Castle. Shergarh was selected by Sher Shdh soon after he had begun strengthening...
Page 48 - Gayd into a ferment. There is nothing, however, to be apprehended from the townspeople. They are surrounded by a new and strong police, and have a wholesome dread of the forty-five English and one hundred Sikhs.
Page 48 - There are plenty of zam1nddrs who would join them, if they once got the upper hand ; but none, I think, that will hazard life and property before that. The following is our plan of operations : — Any body of the mutineers under 300 or 350, are to be met about two miles from the town ; 45 English, 100 Sikhs, and 40 najibs, besides four or five residents, will oppose them. I shall put the najibs between the Sikhs and the English, so they must be staunch or be cut to pieces. The mutineers would be...
Page 191 - ... the miserable cupola on the terrace covering the first stage of the building, and have had a good effect. The niche for prayer is not so much ornamented as in the father's monument, and there is on it no writing except the name of God in the centre, and this is repeated in many parts of the building. The grave, which occupies the centre of the building, is undoubtedly that of Selim. On his left is another, nearly of the same size ; but whether that of his son Selim, or of a wife, I cannot say,...