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 BERHAMPUR TOWN AND HEAD-QUARTERS.

324

and females 156,450. 527

villages.

contains

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Area, 475 square miles, containing 5 towns and The idluk

Land revenue demand (1881-82) ;^55,77o.

civil

and

3 criminal courts, with 10 police stations; strength

of regular police, 126.

Chief town, Berhampur.

Berhampur in the

19°

18'

Brahma-pur).

Berhampur 40"

taluk,

N., long.

Ganjam

84° 47' 50"

—Town and

military station

Madras Presidency. Lat. Situated on the Grand Trunk

District, E.

525 miles north-east from Madras, 18 miles south-west of Ganjam and 13 miles from Chatrapur (Chetterpur), and connected by a good road with Gopalpur, distant 9 miles, on the coast. Houses, 4973 ) population (1881) 23,599, namely, Hindus, 21,692 ; Muhamma-

Road,

and Christians, 506. Of the adult males, 18 per cent, are and 12 per cent, weavers. Municipal income, ;^2285 per annum; incidence per head (exclusive of military population), is. 3^d. The military force consists of one wing of a native regiment. Being the head-quarters of Ganjam District, Berhampur possesses all the public buildings and establishments of a station of first-class importance sessions court - house, magistrate’s court. District jail and policestation, college, two churches, post and telegraph offices, etc. A considerable trade is carried on in sugar, and silk cloth is manufactured from Chinese and Bengal cocoons. The Madras Bank has opened a branch here. The town is built upon a rocky ledge, surrounded by an extensive cultivated plain sloping towards the sea-coast and bounded by hills on the west and north, from 5 to 6 miles distant. In 1880-81, the registered birth-rate was 2i’i per 1000 of population, and the registered death-rate 2o‘9 ; the sum allotted for sanitary purposes was The town has always been unhealthy. The cantonment, as distinct from the old town, is known as Baupur. Large municipal town Berhampur {Berhampore, Bahrdtnptcr). and administrative head-quarters of Murshidabad District, Bengal, and situated on the till within the last few years a military cantonment left bank of the Bhagi'rathi, 5 miles below the city of Murshidabad. The population, which in 1872 numbered 27,110, amounted in 1881 to 23,605, namely, 18,167 Hindus, 5188 Muhammadans, and 250 Christians and others.’ The decrease is owing to the abandonment Area of town site, 6505 acres. of Berhampur as a military station. expenditure, ;^i679. BerMunicipal income in 1880-81, ;^i678 hampur was first selected as a site for military barracks in October 1757, shortly after the battle of Plassey; the factory house at Kasimbazar having been destroyed by Suraj-ud-daula, and the fortifications dismantled in the previous year. A sajiad (grant) was obtained from Mi'r Jafar for 113 acres of ground; but the Court of Directors disallowed the project, and it was not until 1765 that the present barracks were commenced, the immediate object of their construction being to dans, 1401 traders
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