Back জঙ্গলমহল Bengali/Bangla Mahals de la Jungla Catalan જંગલ મહલ Gujarati जंगल महल Hindi ᱡᱚᱝᱜᱚᱞ ᱢᱚᱦᱚᱞ SAT
| Jungle Mahals | |||||||||||||||||
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| District of British India | |||||||||||||||||
| 1805–1833 | |||||||||||||||||
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• Establishment of the district | 1805 | ||||||||||||||||
• District broken up | 1833 | ||||||||||||||||
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Jungle Mahals (lit. jungle estates)[1] was a district formed by British possessions and some independent chiefdoms lying between Birbhum, Bankura, Midnapore[2] and the hilly country of Chota Nagpur in what is now the Indian state of West Bengal.[3] The district was located in the area known as the Jungle Terry.[4]
- ^ "Forest Tenures in the Jungle Mahals of South West Bengal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 419.
- ^ O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, Bankura, Bengal District Gazetteers, pp. 21-41, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal
- ^ Browne, James (1788). India tracts: containing a description of the Jungle Terry districts, their revenues, trade, and government: with a plan for the improvement of them. Also an history of the origin and progress of the Sicks