PUSA, a village of British India, in Darbhanga district, Bengal, near the right bank of the Burhi Gandak River; pop. (roof), 4570. It was acquired as a government estate in 1796, and was long used as a stud dept and afterwards as a tobacco farm. In 1go4 it was selected as the site of a college and laboratory for agricultural research.
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