BIMLIPATAM ZAMINDARI AND TOWN.
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it forms a township. The western portion of the under the Burmese, a separate township called formerly cut off from the rest of the island by the Seibala whose northern end has now entirely silted up. The centre
which District
constituted,
island
Daray, creek,
of the
from north to south is occupied by a range of wooded and pagoda-topped hills, sending out spurs which traverse the extensive island
alluvial plains to the east
and
The
west.
head-quarters of Bilu-Gywon
are at Chaung-zun, situated in a dip of the hills in the centre of the island,
where there is an artificial reservoir. Between Chaung-zun and the northern end of the island, in the Ka-nyaw Hills, is a hot saline spring, used in cases of rheumatism and skin diseases. The villages are generally large against
and straggling; and owing
living in houses
a Talaing prejudice
to
not facing the north, most of the dwellings
direction. The island is intersected by creeks, which produce to be exported at little expense. The chief crop is rice. There are two roads in the island. Under the Burmese, this township, exclusive of Daray, was divided into twelve ‘Ywa,’ meaning
look
in
enable
that
its
in this instance tracts of country divided off for fiscal purposes,
each placed under a Thug}'L
and
After the cession of Tenasserim to the
and the re-peopling of the township, the revenue divisions In 1848, Captain (now Sir Arthur) Phayre, the Deputy Commissioner, fixed the boundaries of the circles,
British,
became
tribal instead of territorial.
retaining as far as possible the limits certain cases, as
when
as a hardship, the
of the
the reduction of a
Ywa was
Eighteen
divided.
ancient
Thugyfs
divisions.
circles
but the number was reduced in 1868 to 15, and is now (1883) 12. Rice cultivation has very considerably increased. In 1848,
number of acres under
In
might be felt were thus formed,
office
the
was 15,225 ; in 1858, it was 27,606 ; in and in 1881, 46,469. 1868, 32,545 ; in 1873, 42,318 ; in 1876, 41,274 Gross revenue (1881), ^^14,891, of which ^10,760 was derived from the land. Bilu-gywon means Caco-demon Island,’ the name being derived from traditions of former cannibal inhabitants. Bimlipatam. Zam'mddri in Vizagapatam District, Madras Presidency. Houses, 24,329, grouped into 119 villages, all zaminddrt. Population (1881) 106,267, namely, 53,645 males and 52,622 females. tillage
‘
—
Hindus numbered 104.953; Muhammadans, 962;
Roman
Catholics, 343; ‘others,’
Bimlipatam. Eat.
17° 53'
—Town
in
Christians, mostly
Area, 211 square miles.
9.
Vizagapatam
15" N., long. 83° 29' 50"
District, E.
Madras Presidency.
houses, 1735; population
(1881) 8582, namely, 7991 Hindus, 359 Muhammadans, and 232 Situated on the coast 18 miles north-east of Vizagapatam, Christians.
and 454 south-west from
Calcutta.
Municipal revenue
incidence of municipal taxation, including population,
is.
8|d.
The amount
tolls,
in
1881,^1102
per head of rateable
allotted for sanitary purposes in
