Balaghat Tahsil, 1908

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Balaghat Tahsil

(Burha). — Southern tahsil of Balaghat District, Central Provinces, lying between 21 19' and 22 5' N. and 79 39' and 8o° 45' E. In 1901 the area of the tahsil was 1,687 square miles, and the population 249,610. In 1904 a redistribution of territory between the Balaghat and Baihar tahsils took place, and the adjusted figures of area and population are 1,388 square miles and 239,141 persons. The population in 1891 of the area now constituting the tahsil was 268,108. The density is 172 persons per square mile. The tahsil contains one town, Balaghat (population, 6,223), the head- quarters of the District and tahsil; and 582 inhabited villages.

Excluding 308 square miles of Government forest, 56 per cent, of the available area is occupied for cultivation. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 2,16,000, and for cesses Rs. 24,000. The tahsil consists of a rich lowland rice-growing tract on both sides of the Wainganga river, and of a triangular block of hills to the north- east of the plain. It includes five complete zamindari estates and parts of three others. The total area of these estates is 439 square miles, of which 267 are forest.