Janjgir

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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.

Janjgir

Eastern tahsil of Bilaspur District, Central Provinces, lying between 21 degree 37' and 22 degree 50' N. and 82 degree 19' and 83 degree 40' E. In 1 90 1 its area was 1,467 square miles, and the population was 285,236. On the formation of the new Drug District, the constitu- tion of the tahsil was considerably altered. A tract lying south of the Mahanadi, containing the Bilaigarh, Katgl, and Bhatgaon zamin- daris, with the Sonakhan estate, and the Sarsewa group of villages, was transferred to the Baloda Bazar tahsil of Raipur District, while the three northern zamindaris of Korba, Chhurri, and Uprora were trans- ferred from the Bilaspur tahsil to Janjgir. On the transfer of Sam- balpur District to Bengal, the Chandarpur-Padampur and Malkhurda estates of that District were added to this tahsil. The revised figures of area and population for the Janjgir tahsil are 3,039 square miles and 418,209 persons.

The population of this area in 1891 was 451,024. The density is 138 persons per square mile. The tahsil contains 1,331 villages. The head-quarters are at Janjgir, a village of 2,257 inhabitants, adjoining Naila station on the railway, 26 miles east of Bilaspur town. The tahsil has only four square miles of Government forest. It includes the zamindari estates of Champa, Korba, Chhurl, and Uprora, with a total area of 1,748 square miles, of which 746 are tree and scrub forest, and a population of 112,680 persons. The land revenue demand in 1902-3 on the area now constituting the tahsil was approximately 1.42 lakhs. The old area of the tahsil is almost wholly an open plain, covered with yellow clay soil and closely cropped with rice, while the northern zamindaris consist principally of densely forested hills and plateaux.