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''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. ''

=Arrah Subdivision=

Head-quarters subdivision of Shahabad
District, Bengal, lying between 25 10' and 25 46' N. and 84 17' and
84 51/ E.j with an area of 913 square miles. The subdivision is
a low-lying alluvial flat, bounded on the north by the Ganges and on
the east by the river Son. The population in 1901 was 699,956,
compared with 743,582 in 1891, the density being 767 persons to the
square mile. It contains two towns, Arrah (population, 46,170), the
head-quarters, and JagdIspur (11,451); and 1,245 villages, one of
which, Bihiya, on the East Indian Railway, is an important trade
centre. Arrah is famous on account of the gallant defence of the
Judge's house by a handful of Europeans and Sikhs against an over-
whelming force of mutineers in 1857.

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