Tirora
Tirora, 1908
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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Northern tahsil of Bhandara District, Central Provinces, lying between 21° 10' and 21° 47' N. and 79° 43' and 80° 40' E., with an area of 1,328 square miles. The population in 1901 was 291,514, compared with 334,579 in 1891, The density is 220 persons per square mile. The tahsil contains 571 inhabited villages. Tirora, the head-quarters, is a village of 3,640 inhabitants, 30 miles from Bhandara town, on the Bengal-Nagpur Railway. Excluding 88 square miles of Government forest, 56 per cent, of the available area is occupied for cultivation. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,46,000, and for cesses Rs. 22,000. The tahsil includes 11 zamindari estates covering an area of 769 square miles, of which 163 are forest. It consists roughly of an open level tract of rice-growing land, with forests towards the eastern border. The cultivated area in 1903-4 was 657 square miles, of which 40 were irrigated.
