Pilibhit tahsil/ district
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Pilibhit Tahsil
1908
North-western tahsil of Pilibhit District, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Pilibhit and Jahanabad, and lying between 28 29' and 28 53' N. and 79 37' and 80 3' E., with an area of 474 square miles. Population fell from 199,039 in 1891 to 184,922 in 1901. There are 390 villages and three towns, including PILIBHIT (population, 33,490), the District and tahsil head-quarters. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 3,03,000, and for cesses Rs. 50,000. The density of population, 390 persons per square mile, is considerably above the District average. The Deoha and Katna and many smaller streams traverse the tahsil, and in the west two canals from the Bahgul and Kailas irrigate a small area. A long swamp, called the Mala, forms the eastern boundary, fringed by a sal forest. In 1903-4 the area under cultivation was 240 square miles, of which 37 were irrigated. In dry years temporary wells can be made readily, and the rivers are also used.
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.
After 1947
Tigers
As in 2023
Keshav Agarwal, Sep 3, 2023: The Times of India
Pilibhit : The brown and green of the crop provided the perfect camouflage, the tall stalks the ideal refuge from heat. So when the tigers first came to Amaria in Pilibhit from the forests beyond, either out of a spirit of adventure or having lost their way, they almost immediately made it their home. It was love at first sight. They frolicked, hunted, played hide and seek. And proliferated. That was sometime in 2013. Exactly 10 years later, the “sugarcane tigers” have disappeared as mysteriously as they had appeared a decade ago. Wildlife experts TOI spoke with have termed the development “extremely disconcerting”. Kaushlendra Singh, former member of Uttarakhand state wildlife board, sent aletter to PM Narendra Modi recently, expressing fear that the sugarcane tigers may have been poached.
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Keshav Agarwal, Sep 3, 2023: The Times of India
Pilibhit : The ‘sugarcane tigers’ of Pilibhit, UP, have now disappeared from the agricultural belt of Amaria, baffling wildlife experts, reports Keshav Agarwal. Till even about a year ago, the sparsely-populated 400 sq km agricultural belt in Pilibhit was known for sheltering 10 tigers, bringing joy to foresters and villagers alike as they basked in the attention the unique phenomenon brought.
Since the past few months, however, the tigers haven’t been spotted. Nobody is really sure where they have gone — or why? After all, the area is an ideal one for big cats – it has a thriving prey-base, abundant drinking water resources, and safe hideouts along the banks of the Kailash and Devha rivers, where there are stretches of high grasslands.
Qamar Qureshi, scientist at the tiger cell of Wildlife Institute of India, said migration of the tigers may be a possibility. “The increasing population of leopards in the sugarcane belt is an indication that tigers have moved away since the two cannot coexist.”
