Baloda Bazar
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Baloda Bazar
Tahsil of Raipur District, Central Provinces, lying between 21 15' and 21 53' N. and 8i° 38' and 82 59' E., constituted in 1906 on the formation of the new Drug District. It contains the eastern portion of the old Simga tahsil which was abolished, the Deori zamindari from the Raipur tahsil and the Tarenga estate from Bilaspur District, and also that portion of Bilaspur District lying south of the Mahanadl which was transferred to Raipur. The area of the Baloda Bazar tahsil is 1,933 square miles, and the population in 1901 of the area now constituting it was 264,063, compared with 318,706 in 1891. The density is 137 persons per square mile, and the tahsil contains 975 inhabited villages. The head-quarters are at Baloda Bazar, a village with 1,858 inhabitants. The tahsil includes 270 square miles of Government forest. It contains the zamindari estates of Deori, Bhatgaon, Katgi, and Bilaigarh, with a total area of 315 square miles, of which 45 are forest, and a population of 39,254 persons. The land revenue demand in 1902-3 on the area now constituting the tahsil was approximately 1-92 lakhs. The western portion, which was formerly in Simga, is open and populous, while the tract east of the Mahanadl contains some well-cultivated country and also considerable areas of forest.
