Sinbaungwe, 1908

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Sinbaungwe

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-eastern township of Thayetmyo District, Burma, lying between 19 30' and 19 47' N. and 95 10' and 95 50' E,, and stretching from the Irrawaddy eastwards to the confines of Magwe and Yamethin Districts, with an area of 1,873 square miles. Its head- quarters are at Sinbaungwe, a village of 2,394 inhabitants, on the left or east bank of the Irrawaddy. The country is dry and undulating, and sparsely inhabited. The population was 22,108 in 1891, and 23,395 in 190X3 distributed in 105 villages. Thathameda was the main source of revenue up to 1902-3, when it was replaced by capitation tax. The area under cultivation in 1903-4 was 36 square miles, paying Rs. 36,000 land revenue.