Bramhapuri
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.
Bramhapuri
{BrahmapurT). — Northern tahs'il of Chanda District, Central Provinces. In 1901 its area was 3,324 square miles, and its population 220,453 persons. In 1905 a new tahsil was constituted at GarhchirolT, to which 2,527 square miles, including fifteen zavitnddri estates with a total area of over 2,000 square miles, were transferred from Bramhapuri, the Bramhapuri tahsil at the same time receiving a small accession of 100 square miles of territory from Chanda.
The revised totals of area and population of the Bramhapuri tahs'il are 897 square miles and 115,049 persons. The population in 1891 of the area now constituting the tahsil wa.^ 144,157. The density is 128 per- sons per square mile, and the tahsil contains 340 inhabited villages. Its head-quarters are at Bramhapuri, a village of 4,238 inhabitants, 77 miles from Chanda town by road. The tahsil contains 443 square miles of Government forest. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 for the area now constituting the tahsil was approximately Rs. 82,000. Bramhapuri is almost wholly rice country, and contains a number of fine irrigation tanks in the larger villages.
