Government of West Bengal. Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the District of 24-Paraganas. For the period 1924-1933

Summary

The southern part of the sudivision presents all the typical features of half-formed land through which the eltuaries of the Ganges find their way to the sea. [...] In the northern area the tracts along the banks of the Hooghly are salubrious owing to better drainage the comparative absence of noxious undergrowth and the sea breeze which blows almost continuously during the south-west monsoon. [...] (2) The Kulgachi Bil situated to the west of Balinda in the centre of the insular portion surrounded by the Bidyadhari river and the Katakhal. [...] (5) and (6) The Balli and DIntbhanga Bils the former containing ten and the latter.twelve square miles are also sitated east of the Jamuna and to the north of the Bayra Bil. [...] Roads are practically unknown in the Sundarbans and the waterways are the only means of commtinications with outside world the embankments are the chief means of communications within the blocks of lands.

Title	Pages	Author/Editor
Cover	i-iii	Anil Lahiri	View
Frontmatter	i-v	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter I. The district	1-15	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter II. The People	15-21	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter III. Economic condition of the people	21-28	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter IV. The employment of the land	28-37	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter V. Agriculture	37-47	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter VI. Inustries	47-56	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter VII. Fiscal History	56-68	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter VIII. System of Land Tenure	68-75	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter IX. Division of land according to legal interests	75-82	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter X. The present operations	82-102	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XI. Chapter dealing with special interests	102-105	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XII. Revenue History of the Sundarbans	105-122	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XIII. Revision of rents revenue and diara resumptions	122-135	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XIV. Forest and Salt Administration 24-Parganas	135-139	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XV. Financial Analysis	139-143	Anil Lahiri	View
Chapter XVI. Conclusions	143-148	Anil Lahiri	View
Appendices	149-214	Anil Lahiri	View
Maps	i-iv	Anil Lahiri	View
Department of Land Records and Surveys Bengal	215-219	Anil Lahiri	View
Index	i-ii	Anil Lahiri	View
Backmatter	1-v	Anil Lahiri	View

Government of West Bengal. Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the District of 24-Paraganas. For the period 1924-1933

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