Bengal District Gazetteers: Shahabad (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bengal District Gazetteers: Shahabad

The original Gazetteer of Shahabad was compiled by Messrs. D. B. Allen, A. W. Mackie and H. H Risley, and was published in 1877 in Volume XII of the Statis tical Account of Bengal by Sir W. W. Hunter. The present volume is the first of a new series of District Gazetteers, in 'which a different arrangement has been adopted for the subject-matter and detailed statistics have been relegated to a statistical Appendix. Thanks are due to the many persons who have assisted in the preparation of. Jthe volume; and I take this opportunity to acknowledge my obligations to the Hpn'ble Mr. W. A. Inglis, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public Works Department, and Mr. J. H. Toogood; Superintending Engineer, Sone Circle, who have been so good as to.revise Chapter VI, and tomessrs. W. A. Marr and G Milne, Collectors of Shahabad, for the assistance they have given in checking the various articles.

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