Shwedaung Town, 1908

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Shwedaung Town

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.

Shwedaung Town, 1908

Head-quarters of the subdivision of the same name in Prome District, Lower Burma, situated in 18 42' N. and 95 13' E., on the Rangoon-Prome road, 8 miles due south of Prome town. Population (1901), 10,787. Shwedaung is adminis- tered by a town committee constituted in 1882, The income of the town fund in 1903-4 was Rs. 24,000 and the expenditure Rs. 29,000, There is a hospital in the town with 24 beds. A considerable amount of silk is manufactured, almost every house in the town having its loom.