Mahasamund, 1908
Mahasamund
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.
Tahsil of Raipur District, Central Provinces, lying between 19° 50' and 21° 26' N. and 81° 52' and 83° 38' E., constituted in 1906 on the formation of the new Drug District. It contains the greater part of the old Raipur iahsil, including the large zaminddri estates lying to the south and east of the Mahanadl, and the Phuljhar zamhiddri transferred from Sambalpur in 1905, together with the Rajim, Raitam, Sirpur, and Khalari tracts forming the ordinary pro- prietary area of that tahsil east of the Mahanadl. IVIahasamund contains 2,042 villages, with an area of 5,284 square miles and a population in 1901 of 398,075 persons, compared with 360,305 in 1891. The density is 75 persons per square mile. The head-cjuarters arc at Mahasamund, a village with 912 inhabitants. The tahsil contains about 239 square miles of Government forest. It includes the zamlnddri estates of Fingeshwar, Bindra-Nawagarh, Khariar, Narra, Suarmar, Kauria, and Phuljhar, with a total area of 4,584 square miles and a population of 301,775 persons. About 2,340 square miles of the zamlnddri area are covered with forest or scrub-jungle. The land revenue demand in 1902-3 on the area now constituting the tahsil was approximately Rs. 79,000.
