Bengal District Gazetteers Burdwanhttp://localhost:8080/handle/1200/2592026-04-04T19:12:30Z2026-04-04T19:12:30ZBengal District Gazetteers Burdwan 1910Peterson, J. C. K.http://localhost:8080/handle/1200/2602019-03-18T07:04:51Z1910-12-01T00:00:00ZBengal District Gazetteers Burdwan 1910
Peterson, J. C. K.
The district of Burdwan, one of the western districts of the general
Burdwan Division is situated between 22° 56' and 23° 53' north
and between 86° 48' and 88° 25' east longitude. It TI0N‘
contains an area of 2,689 square miles as ascertained by the latest
survey, and a population, according to the census of 1901, of
1,532,475 persons. Burdwan, the principal town and administrative
headquarters, is situated on the north bank of the Banka,
some 2 miles from the Damodar river, in 23° 14' N. and
87° 51' B. The name Bardhamana iu the vernacular is a corruption
of the Sanskrit Vardhamana (the present participle passive
of the verb vardh) and implies “ the increasing or prosperous.”
The district lies mainly between the Ajay, the Bhagirathi or Bounda-
Hooghly, and the Damodar rivers. It is bounded on the north riej
by the Santal Parganas, Birbhum and Murshidabad ; on the east
by Nadia ; on the south by Hooghly, Midnapore and Bankura ;
and on the west by Manbhum, The Ajay separates it on the
north from the Birbhum and Murshidabad districts forming a
natural boundary line till shortly before#its junction with the
Bhagirathi; while on the south the Damodar, running parallel
to the Ajay for a considerable portion of its course, forms the
man boundary. A small portion of the Katwa subdivision lies
to the north of the Ajay, and the Khaiidaghosh and Raina
thanas of the head-quarters subdivision lie to the south of the
Damodar, whioh here takes a sharp bend to the north-east. On
the west the Barakar passes along the north-western boundary for
a, few miles before its junction with the Damodar and divides the district from Manbhum. On the east the Hooglily, known in its
upper reaches as the Bhagirathi, forms the mstiff boundary with
Nadia, but a small strip of land on the right bank of the river
whioh oontains the town of Nadia belongs to that district. The
south-eastern boundary marches with the Hooghly distriot and is
formed by an irregular line drawn north-east from the Dhalkisor
river, which for a few miles forms the boundary with Midnapore,
to the Hooghly. The natural boundaries formed by the great
rivers to the north, east and south are fairly constant, and there
have been no important oh^nges within recent times.
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