Jamalpur Town

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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.

Jamalpur Town

Town in the head-quarters subdivision of Monghyr District, Bengal, situated in 25degree 19' N. and 86° 30' E., at the foot of the Monghyr hills, on the loop-line of the East Indian Railway, 299 miles from Calcutta. The population at the Census of March, 190 1, was 13,929, compared with 18,089 in l 89 1 ;but a second enumeration eight months later disclosed a population of 16,302. The decrease on the first occasion was chiefly due to many persons having left the town on account of the plague ; but subsidiary causes were the transfer of the audit department of the East Indian Railway to Cal- cutta and the introduction of workmen's trains from the neighbouring stations, owing to which many of the workmen have settled outside the town.

Jamalpur is the head-quarters of the locomotive department of the East Indian Railway, and contains the largest manufacturing work- shops in India. Locomotives are put together, and railway material of all descriptions is made in malleable iron, cast-iron, and steel.The works cover an area of 99 acres, and employ about 230 Europeans and 9,000 native mechanics and labourers. Jamalpur was constituted a municipality in 1883. The income and expenditure during the decade ending 190 1-2 averaged Rs. 20,000. In 1903-4 the income wasRs. 25,000, mainly derived from a tax on houses and lands and a conservancy rate ; and the expenditure was Rs. 22,009. There is no municipal water-supply, but the workshops obtain a supply from reservoirs constructed at the base of the hills. Jamalpur contains an Institute, comprising a library, reading and billiard-rooms, an enter- tainment hall, and swimming bath ; also a church and aided schools for Europeans and natives.