BARASAT  , a subdivisional See also:

• TOWN

town in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district of the Twenty-four Parganas, See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal, See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India . For a considerable See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time Barasat town was the headquarters of a See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint magistracy, known as the "Barasat District," but in 1861, on a readjustment of boundaries Barasat district was abolished by See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, and was converted into a subdivision of the Twenty-four Parganas . Pop . (1901) 8634 . It forms a striking See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration of the rural See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the so-called " towns " in Bengal, and is merely an agglomeration of 41 See also:

• SEPARATE

separate villages, in which all the operations of husbandry go on precisely as in the adjacent hamlets .