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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value. ''

=Hijili Village=
Name of an old village in Midnapore District,
Bengal, situated at the mouth of the Rasulpur river. The site has
long since been washed away. Hijili was formerly the centre of an
extensive salt manufacture, and the Muhammadans had a fort here.
A mosque was built by Masnad Ali Shah, who held the neighbour-
ing district from 1505 to 1546, and whose tomb is still visited by
pilgrims. In 1687, after the skirmish at Hooghly, Job Charnock
occupied Hijili on behalf of the East India Company and was
besieged there for four months by a strong Mughal force. Eventually
the Muhammadans raised the siege, whereupon Charnock evacuated
the place and shortly afterwards laid the foundation of Calcutta.

The name of Hijili was also given to a littoral tract of 1,014 square
miles, extending along the right bank of the Hooghly river from the
confluence of the Rupnarayan to that of the Subarnarekha, and
lying between 21° 47' and 21° 53' N. and 87° 53' and 87° 59' E. ;
it contained among others the two large parganas of Tamluk and
Mahishadal, and, under Muhammadan rule, constituted a separate
administration. In 1836 it was included in Midnapore District,
with the exception of a small tract in the south which was added to
the adjoining District of Balasore. Salt manufacture was discontinued
about forty years ago owing to the competition of cheaper Liver-
pool salt.

[For an account of the siege of Hijili, see C. R. Wilson, Early
A?inals of the English in Bengal (1895), pp. 103-ri.]

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