Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 FBH-FBH/4
Title
Statistical Survey of the District of Bhagalpur
Date(s)
- 1810 - 1811 (Creation)
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2 bound volumes handwritten manuscripts
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Scope and content
The Statistical Survey of the District of Bhagalpur consists of 2 volumes. The first contains:
- Book I: Topography and Antiquities of Bhagalpur (314 pages)
- Book II: People of Bhagalpur (208 pages)
- Book III: The Natural Production of Bhagalpur (246 pages)
The second volume contains:
- Book IV: State of Agriculture in Bhagalpur (295 pages)
- Book V: State of Arts and Commerce in Bhagalpur (132 pages)
- List of hills in Bhagalpur (35 pages)
- Index to the Map (117 pages)
- Index of native words of Bhagalpur (93 pages)
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Language of material
- English
- Hindi
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Related units of description
The Library Collections contain the printed "An Account of the District of Bhagalpur in 1810-1811" by Francis Buchanan (Patna, 1939). The material within this volume is representative of the the handwritten manuscripts, though there are some differences in the appendices. The collections also contain "Journal of Francis Buchanan kept during the survey of the district of Bhagalpur, Edited with Notes and Introduction by C.E.A.W. Oldham" (Patna 1930).