Halisahar

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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.

Halisahar

Town in the Barrackpore subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, situated in 22° 56' N, and 88° 29' E., on the east bank of the Hooghly. Population (1901), 10,149. It was formerly called Kumarhata, and is a noted home o^ pandits ; among other devotees of Gauranga, Ram Prasad Sen lived here. It was constituted a municipality in 1903. The income for six months of 1903-4 was Rs. 4,200, of which Rs. 1,600 was derived from a tax on persons (or property tax), Rs. 1,400 from a conservancy rate, and Rs. 900 from a tax on houses and lands. During the same period the expenditure amounted to Rs. 2,300. At Kanchrapara within this municipality are the workshops of the Eastern Bengal State Railway.