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TIRHUT, or TIRHOOT

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 1010 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
TIRHUT, or TIRHOOT , the historic name of a
tract
  in northern India, being that portion of Behar which lies north of the Ganges. It corresponds roughly with the ancient Hindu kingdom of Mithila (q. v.). Down to 1873 it formed a single
district
 , which was then divided into the two districts of
Darbhanga
  and
Muzaffarpur
 . In 1908, when the division of Patna was sub-divided, the name of Tirhut was again officially given to a new division, containing the four districts of
Darbhanga
 ,
Muzaffarpur
 , Saran and Champaran:
total
  area, 12,588 sq. m.;
total
  pop. (1901), 9,867,373. It is a continuous alluvial plain, traversed by many winding rivers, and it supports the densest population in all India. It is the main centre of the indigo industry, conducted by European planters, which is now in a declining
condition
 . Other crops are
rice
 , millets, wheat, maize, oilseeds,
sugar
 -cane and tobacco. Apart from indigo there are no large
industries
 . Since the
famine
  of 1874 the whole country has been saved from its former isolation by the construction of the Bengal & North-Western railway, with numerous branches; but the Ganges is nowhere bridged.


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