Sanjari

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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.

Sanjari

Southern tahsil of the new Drug District, Central Piovinces, which was constituted in 1906 from portions of Raipur and Bilaspur. The tahsil lies between 20 23' and 21 i' N. and 80 48' and 81 31' E. It was formed by taking 373 square miles from the former Drug tahsil^ and 944 square miles from the former Dhamtarl tahsil of Raipur. It thus has an area of 1,317 square miles, the population of which in 1901 was 198,399, compared with 239,721 in 1891. The density is 151 persons per square mile, and there are 690 inhabited villages.

The head-quarters have been fixed at Balod, a village of 1,228 inhabitants, 55 miles from Drug town by road; but the tahsil was named after another village, Sanjari, to prevent confusion with the Baloda Bazar tahsil of Raipur. The tahsil contains 164 square miles of Government forest. It includes the zamlndari estates of Khujji, Dondi-Lohara, and Gundardehl, which have an area of 426 square miles and a population of 51,493 persons, and contain more than 200 square miles of forest. The north of the tahsil is an open black-soil plain, while tracts of hill and forest extend to the south and west.