Sikandarabad Tahsil, 1908
Sikandarabad Tahsil
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.
North-western tahsil of Bulandshahr Dis- trict, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Sikandarabad, Dadrl, and Dankaur, and lying along the Jumna, between 28 15' and 28 39' N. and 77 18' and 77 50' E., with an area of 516 square miles. The population rose from 224,368 in 1891 to 260,849 in 1901, There are 404 villages and seven towns, the largest of which arc SIKANDARABAD (population, 18,290), the tahsll head-quarters, and DANKAUR (5,444). The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 4,32,000, and for cesses Rs. 74,000. The tahsll is the poorest in the District, and supports only 505 persons per square mile, against an average of 599. It is crossed from north to south by two mam lines of drainage the Patwai and the Karon or Karwan. Both of these are naturally ill-defined, but their channels have been deepened and straightened. The area between the Patwai and J umma is poor, being largely covered with tamarisk and grass jungle varied by patches of salt waste. In the north the HINDAN and Bhuriya livers increase the satu- ration, while they bring down fertile deposits of earth. The tahsil is well supplied with irrigation by the Mat branch of the Upper Ganges Canal, which passes through the centre from north to south. In 1903-4 the area under cultivation was 358 square miles, of which 150 were irrigated. More than two-thirds of the irrigated area is supplied from the canal.
