Sironcha

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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.

Sironcha

Southern tahsil of Chanda District, Central Provinces. In 1901 its area was 1,085 square miles, and its population was 51,148. The transfer of the taluks of Nugur, Albaka, and Cherla of the Sironcha tahsil, covering an area of 593 square miles and containing 142 villages with 20,218 persons, to the Madras Presidency has been sanctioned, but further details of administration are still being con- sidered. In 1905 an area of 2,603 square miles of the Chanda tahsil, of which 2,600 were in the Ahiri zaviindari estate, was transferred to Sironcha. The revised totals of area and population of the Sironcha tahsil are 3,095 square miles and 55,465 persons. The population in 1891 of the area now constituting the tahsil was 51,732. The density is only 18 persons per square mile, and the tahsil contains 421 inhabited villages. Its head-quarters are at Sironcha, a village of 2,813 inhabitants, 130 miles from Chanda town by road. The area of Government forest in the new tahsil is 480 square miles, while 2,254 square miles of the Ahiri zamindari are covered by tree forest, scrub jungle, or grass. The northern portion of the tahsll comprised in the Ahiri zamindari is one of the most densely wooded and sparsely popu- lated areas in the Province ; to the south of this Sironcha extends in a long narrow strip to the east of the Godavari, and consists of a belt of rich alluvial soil along the banks of the river and its affluents, with forests and hills in the background. The population is wholly Telugu. The land revenue demand of the tahsil was approximately Rs. 1 7,00c, before the revision of settlement now in progress.