Tamadaw

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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.

Tamadaw

Western township of Shwebo District, Upper Burma, on the Upper Chindwin border, lying between 22° 46' and 23° 8' N. and 94° 50' and 95° 23 E., with an area of 59S square miles. It consists for the most part of broken country with low hills. The population was 13,845 in 1891, and 19,634 in 1901, distributed in 145 villages, Tamadaw (population, 199), a village in the east, being the head-quarters. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 55 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 48,700.