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TIRHUT, or TIRHOOT

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1010 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIRHUT, or TIRHOOT  , the historic name of a
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tract in
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northern
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India, being that portion of
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Behar which lies
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north of the
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Ganges . It corresponds roughly with the
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ancient
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Hindu
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kingdom of
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Mithila (q. v.) . Down to 1873 it formed a single
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district, which was then divided into the two districts of
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Darbhanga and
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Muzaffarpur . In 1908, when the
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division of
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Patna was sub-divided, the name of
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Tirhut was again officially given to a new division, containing the four districts of Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur,
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Saran and
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Champaran:
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total
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area, 12,588 sq. m.; total pop . (1901), 9,867,373 . It is a continuous alluvial
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plain, traversed by many winding
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rivers, and it supports the densest
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population in all India . It is the
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main centre of the
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indigo
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industry, conducted by
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European planters, which is now in a declining
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condition . Other crops are
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rice, millets,
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wheat,
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maize, oilseeds,
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sugar-
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cane and
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tobacco . Apart from indigo there are no large
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industries . Since the
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famine of 1874 the whole
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country has been saved from its former
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isolation by the construction of the
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Bengal & North-Western railway, with numerous branches; but the Ganges is nowhere bridged .

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