Tenasserim Township

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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.

Tenasserim Township

Easternmost township of Mergui Dis- trict, Lower Burma, and the only one without a sea-board. It lies between 11° 11' and 13° 28' N. and 98° 51' and 99° 40' E., with an area of 4,033 square miles. It is a stretch of very hilly jungle country, consisting of the basins of the Great and Little Tenasserim rivers. The population was 8,385 in 1891, and 10,712 in 1901, of whom 43 in every hundred spoke Burmese, 40 Karen, and 16 Siamese. The Burmese spoken is much purer than in Mergui, perhaps owing to there being a large number of the descendants of Alaungpaya's army of invasion. There are 114 villages and hamlets, including Tenasserim, the head-quarters. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was only 22 square miles, of which rather more than half was under rice, and the rest orchards and palm groves. The land revenue amounted to Rs. 20,500.