Tavoy Township
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.
Tavoy Township
Township of Tavoy District, Lower Burma, lying between 13° 18 and 14° 18' N. and 98° 11' and 99° 12' E., with an area of 2,340 square miles. The population was 25,760 in 1891, and 33,818 in 1 90 1. In the latter year it contained one town, Tavoy (population, 22,371), the head-quarters of the District and township; and 64 villages. It was then known as the Central township. The only place of importance besides Tavoy is Myitta (population, 533), in the north-east, near the Siamese border, where there is a station for registering the trade between Burma and Siam. Except for a strip of plain land in the west in the valley of the Tavoy river, the township is a mass of forest-clad hills. Between a third and a fourth of the inhabitants outside the limits of Tavoy municipality are Karens, who inhabit the hill areas in the east. The area cultivated in 1903-4 was 27 square miles, paying Rs. 33,000 land revenue.
