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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARAN , a See also:

district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Tirhut See also:division of See also:Bengal. See also:Area, 2674 sq. m. It is a vast alluvial See also:plain, 'possessing scarcely any undulations, but with a genera] inclination towards the See also:south-See also:east, as indicated by the flow of the See also:rivers in that direction. The See also:principal rivers, besides the See also:Ganges, are the See also:Gandak and See also:Gogra, which are navigable throughout the See also:year. The district has See also:long been noted for its high See also:state of cultivation. It yields large crops of See also:rice, besides other cereals, pulses, oil seeds, See also:poppy, See also:indigo and See also:sugar-See also:cane. The See also:population in 1901 was 2,409,509, showing a decrease of 2.2 %, compared with an increase of 7.4% in the previous See also:decade. The See also:average See also:density of population, 901 per square mile, is the, highest See also:rate for all India. The indigo See also:industry, formerly of the first importance, has declined, and sugar refining has in See also:great See also:part taken its See also:place. Some See also:saltpetre is produced, and shellac is manufactured, Saran is exposed to drought and See also:flood. It suffered from the See also:famine of 1874, and again in 1896-1899. An See also:irrigation See also:scheme from the See also:river Gandak, started in 1878, proved a failure, after' a See also:capital See also:expenditure of Rs.

7,00,000. The Bengal See also:

North-Western railway runs through the south of the district. The administrative headquarters are at See also:Chapra. See Saran District Gazetteer (See also:Calcutta, 1908).

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