Bengal District Gazetteers Manbhum 1911

Abstract

The account of Manbhum district contained in this volume has. been compiled from the Statistical Account of Bengal, volume X V I I , by Sir W. W. Hunter, and from materials gathered from local records. In the sections dealing -with history and* ethnology frequent reference has been made to Colonel E. T . Dalton’ s Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal and various articles by the same author in the Journals o f the Asiatic Society, to Mr. J. D. Beglar-V Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces in 1872-73, published in the Archaeological Survey o f India Reports, and also to the various reports and letters ^ unpublished) of Sir H. H. Risley (Superintendent o f Ghatwali Survey, 1880-1884), Sir E. N. Baker (Deputy Commissioner), Colonel Dalton, Messrs. Hewett, Forbes and Gait (at various times Commissioners of the Chota Nagpur Division) on the subject of the Chatwal of the district. For the Chapter on Geology, I am indebted to Mr. E. W . Vredenburg of the Geological Survey of India ; for the article on economical products and also for .much assistance and advice elsewhere in the volume, to the Revd. A. Campbell, d.d., of Pokhuria. I desire also to acknowledge gratefully the assistance received from Rai Nanda Gopal Banerji Bahadur in obtaining materials for and revising various articles in regard to which his detailed knowledge of the district extending over 33 years was invaluable, and to express my thanks to Mr. J . H. Lindsay, l.c.h., Subdivisional Officer of Dhanbad, for revising the Chapter on the Coal-fields of Manbhum.