Salingyi

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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.

Salingyi

Township of the Lower Chindwin District, Upper Burma, lying between 21 49' and 22 8' N. and 94 47' and 95 10' E , along the western bank of the Chmdwm, with an area of 296 square miles. The population was 43,658 in 1891, and 50,814 in 1901, dis- tributed in 2ii villages, Sahngyi (population, 1,503), a village south of Monywa and a few miles to the west of the Chmdwm, being the head- quarters. The township is flat, except in the north-east, and is well watered and thickly populated The soil is for the most part black cotton soil, which produces rice, jowdr^ sesamum, peas, gram, and cotton. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 147 square miles, and the land revenue and thathameda amounted to Rs. 1,19,900