PABNA, or PUBNA  , a town and district of British India, in the Rajshahi division of Eastern Bengal and Assam . The town is situated on the river Ichhamati, near the old bed of the Ganges . Pop . (lgor), 18,424 . The district of Pabna has an area of 1839 sq. m . Pop (19o1), 1,420,461, showing an increase of 4.8% in the decade . It is bordered along its entire east face by the main stream of the Brahmaputra or Jamuna, and along its south-westface by the Ganges or Padma . It is entirely of alluvial origin, the silt of the annual inundations overlying strata of clay on sand . Apart from the two great bordering rivers, it is intersected by countless water-channels of varying magnitude, so that during the rainy season every village is accessible by boat and by boat only . Almost the whole area is one green rice-field, ,the uniform level being broken only by clumps of bamboos and fruit-trees, which conceal the village sites . The district is a modern creation of British rule, being first formed out of Rajshahi district in 1832, and possesses no history of its own . The two staple crops are rice and jute .

Sirajganj, on the Brahmaputra, is the largest mart for jute in Bengal . The Eastern Bengal railway cuts across the south-west corner of the district to Sara, where a bridge crosses the Ganges . The district was affected by the earthquake of the 12th of June 1897, which was most severely felt at Sirajganj .