HOWRAH  , a

city and district of British India, in the Burdwan division of Bengal . The city is situated opposite Calcutta, with which it is connected by a floating bridge . The municipal area is about 11 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 157,594, showing an increase of 35 % in the decade . Since 1872 the population has almost doubled, owing to the great industrial development that has taken place . Howrah is the terminus of the East Indian railway, and also of the Bengal-Nagpur and East Coast lines . It is also the centre of two light railways which run to Amta and Sheakhala . Further, it is the headquarters of the jute-manufacturing industry, with many steam mills, steam presses, also The book is still of interest, especially for its descriptive passages, which were mostly done by Howson; but later researches (such us those of Sir W . M . Ramsay) have made the geographical and historical sections obsolete, and the same may be said of the treatment of the Pauline theology .