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Encyclopedia Britannica



PILIBHIT

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 610 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PILIBHIT , a town and
district
  of British India, in the Bareilly division of the United Provinces. The townpop. (1901), 33,49o-contains the mosque of
Hafiz
  Rahmat
Khan
 , the Rohilla chieftain, built in the second half of the 18th century.
Trade
  is mainly in agricultural produce, and in the products of the neighbouring Himalayan territory and Nepal.
The
DISTRICT
  OF PILIBHIT has an area of 1350 sq. m.; pop.
(19o1), 470,339, showing a decrease of 3% in the decade. Though so near the Himalayas it is entirely a plain. In its midst is the Mala swamp. The
east
  is forest-clad, poor and unhealthy; on the other side of the Mala the land becomes more fertile. The
chief
  river is the Sarda, and the Gumti rises in the
east
 . The
principal
  crops are
rice
 , pulses, wheat and
sugar
 -cane.
Sugar
 -refining is carried on, and sugar, wheat,
rice
  and hemp are exported. The Lucknow-Bareilly section of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway runs through the district, a portion of which is watered by the Rohilkhand canals.


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