Calcutta, South Suburbs

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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Calcutta, South Suburbs

Town in the head-quarters subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, comprising a por- tion of the southern suburbs of Calcutta. Population (1901), 26,374, of whom 20,165 were Hindus, 5,849 Musalmans, and 350 Christians. The application of the term ' suburbs of Calcutta ' has varied widely at different periods. By Act XXI of 1857 the 'suburbs' were defined as including all lands within the general limits of the Panchannagram estate; and under the Bengal Municipal Act, 1876, they were further defined as comprising the present municipalities of Cossipore-Chitpur, Maniktala, Garden Reach, South Suburbs, and Tollygunge, as well as so much of Calcutta as lay outside the limits of the ' Old Town,' which was bounded by Lower Circular Road and Tolly's Nullah. This unwieldy municipality, known as the Suburban municipality, was in 1888 split up into four parts, the 'Added Area' and 'Fringe Area Wards ' (defined in article on Calcutta) being added to Calcutta, and the municipalities of Cossipore-Chitpur and Maniktala being created.

These deductions still left the South Suburban municipality of un- manageable size, and, accordingly, in 1897 the Garden Reach munici- pality and in 1901 the Tollygunge municipality were separated from it. The constitution of the present ' South Suburbs ' municipality therefore dates from 1901. The income during the three years following its constitution has averaged Rs. 52,000, and the expenditure Rs. 32,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 79,000, including Rs. ir,ooo derived from a tax on houses and lands and Rs. 29,000 obtained from the sale- proceeds of Government securities and the withdrawal of savings bank deposits. The expenditure in the same year was Rs. 52,000, of which Rs. 29,000 represented the outlay on the introduction of a supply of filtered water. The principal villages now within the municipality are Barisa and Behala.