Jungle Terry
| Jungle Terry जंगल तराई | |||||||
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 1779 map of the Jungle Terry District. | |||||||
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Jungle Terry or Jungleterry, from
Santal Parganas district
.
Although named as such, rather than an official district, the Jungle Terry was a vague border area. The district named Jungle Mahals would be established later in 1805.[1]
Geography
The Jungle Terry was located in the present-day
Santhal and the Munda people. William Hodges mentions that the Jungle Terry was located to the west of Bauglepore (Bhagalpur).[2]
The area included the
Map number two of
Bishop Reginald Heber comments that the "Jungleterry" district is very fertile and that theft, murder and highway robberies are a rare occurrence in it.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Bengal District Gazetteers Bankura[dead link], O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, 1908, Barcode(99999990038739), Language english, pp. 21-41, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal from Digital Library of India Archived 2016-02-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Henry Yule, A. C. Burnell, Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India, Oxford University Press. p. 291
- ^ Browne, James (1788). India tracts: containing a description of the Jungle Terry districts, their revenues, trade, and government: with a plan for the improvement of them. Also an history of the origin and progress of the Sicks
- ^ Bishop Heber in Northern India: Selections from Heber's Journal, p. 110
External links
- Bengal District Gazetteers Bankura[permanent dead link], O’Malley, L.S.S., 1908, Barcode(6010010076000), Language English, Geography,Travels And Description from Digital Library of India Archived 29 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- The Jungleterry District map
- The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine
- Forest Tenures in the Jungle Mahals of South West Bengal