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Bengal District Gazetteers. Darjeeling
1947
Summary
The ridge continues southward to the level of the plains first as the boundary and then as the top of slopes on the left bank of the Mechi river. [...] The colour and the coldness of the latter are no doubt due to the number of glaciers drained by it : while the Rangit is chiefly supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of the Senchal and Singalila hills and hence its water is warmer and clearer except in the height of the rains. [...] The rivers to the west of the Tista the Mahanadi the Balasan and the Mechi all flow into the Ganges. [...] the dolomite of the Baxa series the limestone bands in the Tertiary rocks and the calcareous tufa deposited by springs at numerous localities chiefly at the junction of the Gondwana and the Tertiary rocks. [...] The magnitude of a. landslip depends on the thickness of the soil-cap the amount of saturation of the soil the steepness of the hillslope the nature of the underlying rocks and the erosive power of the streams and waterfalls in the area.
| Title | Pages | Author/Editor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | i-iii | Arthur Dash | |
| Frontmatter | i-iv | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter I. Physical Description | 1-36 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter II. History | 37-48 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter III. The People | 49-88 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter IV. Public Health | 89-98 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter V. Agriculture and Livestock | 99-112 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter VI. The Tea Industry | 113-122 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter VII. Forests | 123-138 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter VIII. Cinchona | 139-144 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter IX. Occupations Manufactures and Industries | 145-158 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter X. Trade and Prices | 159-178 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XI. Means of Communication | 179-204 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XII. Land Revenue Administration | 205-234 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XIII. General Administration | 235-242 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XIV. Local Self-Government: Description of Urban Areas | 243-264 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XV. Education | 265-280 | Arthur Dash | |
| Chapter XVI. Gazetteer and Index of Place Names | 281-294 | Arthur Dash |
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