PERTABGARH

PARTABGARH  , Or PRATAPGARH, a district of British India in the Fyzabad division of the United Provinces . The administrative headquarters are at Bela . Area, 1442 sq. m.; pop . (1901), 912,848 . The Ganges forms the south-western boundary line, while the Gumti marks the eastern boundary for a few miles . The only mineral products are salt, saltpetre and kankar or nodular limestone . The principal crops are rice, barley, pulse, millets, sugar-cane and poppy . The district is traversed by the branch of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway from Rae Bareilly to Benares, opened in 1898 . There are manufactures of sugar and a little silk; and grain, opium, oil-seeds, hemp and hides are exported . See Partabgarh District Gazetteer (Allahabad, 1904) .