Excerpt from Bengal District Gazetteers: Shahabad The original Gazetteer of Shahabad was compiled by Messrs. D. B. Allen, A. W. Mackie and H. H Risley, and was published in 1877 in Volume XII of the Statis tical Account of Bengal by Sir W. W. Hunter. The present volume is the first of a new series of District Gazetteers, in 'which a different arrangement has been adopted for the subject-matter and detailed statistics have been relegated to a statistical Appendix. Thanks are due to the many persons who have assisted in the preparation of. Jthe volume; and I take this opportunity to acknowledge my obligations to the Hpn'ble Mr. W. A. Inglis, Secretary to the Government of Bengal, Public Works Department, and Mr. J. H. Toogood; Superintending Engineer, Sone Circle, who have been so good as to.revise Chapter VI, and tomessrs. W. A. Marr and G Milne, Collectors of Shahabad, for the assistance they have given in checking the various articles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.