Titagarh
Titagarh, 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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Town in the Barrackpore subdivision of the Twenty-four Parganas District, Bengal, situated in 22° 45' N. and 88° 22' E., on the left bank of the Hooghly river, with a station on the Eastern Bengal State Railway. Population (1901), 16,065, of whom 11,461 are males. Titagarh was at one time a fashionable place of residence for Europeans, but it is now a busy commercial town containing four jute-mills and a paper-mill. It was formerly included within the South Barrackpore municipality, but in 1895 it was constituted a separate municipality. The income during the nine years since the separation has averaged Rs. 19,000, and the expenditure Rs. 16,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 40,000, including a loan of Rs. 13,000 from Government, Rs. 11,000 derived from a tax on houses and lands, and Rs. 12,000 realized from a conservancy rate ; the expenditure was Rs. 25,000.
