Sambalpur Tahsil
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.
Sambalpur Tahsil
Eastern tahsil of the District of the same name, Bengal, lying between 21 S' and 21 57' N. and 83 26' and 84 26' K, with an area, in 1901, of 1,822 square miles. r \ he population in that year was 362,622, compared with 344,391 in 1891. In 1905 the Chandar- pur-Padampur and Malkhurda estates, with an area of 333 square miles and a population of 87,320, were transferred to the Bilaspur District of the Central Provinces, and the revised figures of area and popula- tion of the tahsil are 1,489 square miles and 275,302 persons.
The density is 185 persons per square mile. The tahsil contains one town, SAMBALPUR (population, 12,870), the District and tahsil head-quarters ; and 766 inhabited villages. Excluding 190 square miles of Government forest, 56 per cent, of the available area is occupied for cultivation. If the zammdari estates be also excluded, the percentage is 68. The culti- vated area in 1903-4 was 851 square miles. The demand for land revenue in the same year was Rs. 68,000, and for cesses Rs. 14,000. The tahsil consists of a strip of open country along the left bank of the Mahanadi river, flanked to the east and south by hills. It contains seven zamm- dari estates, with a total area of 614 square miles.
