Ichamati, Dacca

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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.

Ichamati, Dacca

River of Dacca District, Eastern Bengal and Assam. It flows through the south of the District, entering the Meghna near Munshiganj. This even within historical times was a large stream, and has no less than five sacred bathing ghats on its banks, at which the bathing ceremony takes place at the full moon in the month of Kartik, when a similar ceremony is performed on the Karatoya. This Ichamati seems to have been at one period, like the Ichamati (2) of Nadia and Jessore, a continuation of the North Bengal Ichamati (i), from which it was cut off by the Dhaleswari.

[For a discussion of the history of this river, see paragraph 22, Report on the System of Agriculture and Agricultural Statistics of the Dacca District, by A. C. Sen (1898).]