Abstract:
The account of Manbhum district contained in this
volume has. been compiled from the Statistical Account
of Bengal, volume X V I I , by Sir W. W. Hunter, and from
materials gathered from local records. In the sections
dealing -with history and* ethnology frequent reference
has been made to Colonel E. T . Dalton’ s Descriptive
Ethnology of Bengal and various articles by the same
author in the Journals o f the Asiatic Society, to Mr. J.
D. Beglar-V Report of a Tour through the Bengal Provinces
in 1872-73, published in the Archaeological Survey
o f India Reports, and also to the various reports and
letters ^ unpublished) of Sir H. H. Risley (Superintendent
o f Ghatwali Survey, 1880-1884), Sir E. N. Baker (Deputy
Commissioner), Colonel Dalton, Messrs. Hewett, Forbes
and Gait (at various times Commissioners of the Chota
Nagpur Division) on the subject of the Chatwal of the
district. For the Chapter on Geology, I am indebted to Mr. E.
W . Vredenburg of the Geological Survey of India ; for
the article on economical products and also for .much
assistance and advice elsewhere in the volume, to the
Revd. A. Campbell, d.d., of Pokhuria. I desire also to
acknowledge gratefully the assistance received from Rai
Nanda Gopal Banerji Bahadur in obtaining materials for
and revising various articles in regard to which his
detailed knowledge of the district extending over 33 years
was invaluable, and to express my thanks to Mr. J . H.
Lindsay, l.c.h., Subdivisional Officer of Dhanbad, for revising
the Chapter on the Coal-fields of Manbhum.
