Naihati
Naihati, 1908
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.
Town in the Barrackpore subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, situated in 22° 54' N. and 88° 25' E., on the east bank of the Hooghly river. Population (1901), 13,604. Naihati is a station on the Eastern Bengal State Railway and the junction of a branch railway across the Hooghly Bridge which connects with the East Indian Railway. An emigration depot is situated in the town ; and at Gauripur there are large jute and oil-mills. Naihati was constituted a municipality in 1869. The area within municipal limits has been greatly curtailed by the separation of the Bhatpara munici- pality in 1899, and of the Halisahar municipality in 1903. The income for the five years since its separation from Bhatpara has averaged Rs. 21,000, and the expenditure Rs. 20,000. In 1903-4 the mcome was Rs. 13,700, including Rs. 5,000 derived from a tax on persons (or property tax) ; and the expenditure was Rs. 1 1,400.
