Kawa

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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Kawa

South-eastern township of Pegu District, Lower Burma, lying between 16 degree 58' and 17° 26' N. and 96 degree 17' and 96 degree 53' E., with an area of 514 square miles. It is a flat area producing rice, and lying for the most part between the Pegu river and the mouth of the Sittang. In 190T it contained 206 villages, with a population of 79,057, its inhabitants in 1891 having numbered 60,435. The head-quarters are at Kawa (population, 1,866), on the left bank of the Pegu river, not far from Tongyi railway station. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 345 square miles, paying Rs. 6,59,800 land revenue.