A Statistical Account of Bengal, Volume 12Trübner & Company, 1877 - Bengal (India) |
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Account of Patná acres amounted ánnás annual cost Arrah Aurangábád average number Baxár Behar Benáres Bengal Bhabuá Bhojpur bighá Bráhmans called Census Census Report cent Chausá classes Collector consists cotton cowries crops cultivation Dáúdnagar Dehrí District of Gayá Dr Buchanan-Hamilton estates estimated expenditure exported febrifuge females four Ganges Gaya Gayá District Gayáwáls Government land-revenue Government revenue grain Grand Trunk Road high caste hills Hindus Hiouen Thsang hundredweight inches indigo irrigation Jahánábád jail Kaimur labour land revenue low caste males manufacture maunds month Muhammadans municipal Musalmán native Nawádá number of persons opium paddy parganá Patná District pilgrim police circles principal proprietors rabi crops Rájá rent returned rice river rupee saltpetre Sásserám seed Sháhábád District Sherghátí Sinh Són Són Canal sown square miles Statistical Account stone Subdivision Subdivisional sugar tháná Tikárí tons total number total population town village wheat
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Page 251 - ... the circumstances connected with the late distress, it is impossible to doubt that the large importations of grain into the District warded off the famine that was impending, and the inhabitants, rich and poor, bespeak blessing on the railway. But the railway was not all that was needed. The grain had to be distributed throughout the District, and the imperfect condition of the local roads rendered this a task of the utmost difficulty. During the rains when the importations were greatest, the...
Page 66 - Dinapore," he wrote to the Bengal Government, " has July 28. thrown Gya 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 217 - They reached the town on the 2yth of that month, and forthwith released all the prisoners in the jail, and plundered the treasury. The European women and children had already been sent away, but there remained in the town about a dozen Englishmen, official and non-official, and three or four other Christians of different races. The Commissioner of Patna^ Mr. Tayler, had supplied a garrison of 50 Sikhs. This small force held out for a long eight days, until rescued by Major Vincent Eyre. The centre...
Page 72 - June, the engagement is to run for another year, and that the debts of the father do not cease with his death, but are inherited by the son. Thousands of these debts are never paid, and the landlord claims for generations the work of his dependants.
Page 159 - The gorges, which receive the rivers after their descent from the plateau, should also be mentioned in a description of the physical aspect of the country. After a clear drop of two to six hundred feet, the water plashes into a deep pool, scooped out by its continual falling, on leaving which it runs through a channel obstructed throughout several miles of its course with huge masses of rock fallen from above. From each side of the stream rise the undercliffs of the escarpment, covered with jungle...
Page 160 - ... prevail after the rains. The extremes of temperature are less marked than in the valley, which becomes excessively heated, and where hot winds sometimes last for a week, blowing in furious gusts. The climate of the whole neighbourhood has of late changed materially ; and the fall of rain has much diminished, consequent on felling the forests ; even within six years the hail-storms have been far less frequent and violent.
Page 54 - Gaya, called Pragbodhi, for the purpose of dwelling in silent solitude on its summit ; but being disturbed by the tremblings caused by the flight of the god of the mountain, he descended on the south-west side, and went 2^ miles to the///te/ tree (Ficus religiosa) a1 Buddh Gaya.
Page 72 - Gi/a, and some other places, slaves are occasionally sold, and formerly fetched a rupee for each year of their age, until they reached twenty, when they attained their highest value ; but in general the price has recently greatly risen...
Page 210 - They occupy an irregular space six and a half miles from east to west, and five miles from north to south. The largest island is called