Jungle Mahals

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'''Jungle Mahals''', literally 'jungle estates',<ref>[https://www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.54596.LATEST!7.forest%20tenures%20in%20west%20bengal.pdf Forest Tenures in the Jungle Mahals of South West Bengal]</ref> was a district formed by British possessions and some independent chiefdoms lying between [[Birbhum district|Birbhum]], [[Bankura district|Bankura]], [[Midnapore district|Midnapore]]<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Midnapore |volume=18 |page=419}}</ref> and the hilly country of [[Chota Nagpur Plateau|Chota Nagpur]] in what is now the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].<ref name=omalley>O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, ''Bankura'', ''Bengal District Gazetteers'', pp. 21-41, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal</ref> The district was located in the area known as the [[Jungle Terry]],<ref>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''</ref> a thickly forested region inhabited by tribal groups such as the [[Santhal people]] [[Bhumij]]

==History==
The vagueness of the jurisdiction caused inconvenience. In 1805, Regulation XVIII was passed whereby the areas known as Jungle Mahals was separated from the jurisdiction of the Magistrates of the districts of [[Bardhaman district|Burdwan]], Birbhum, Bankura and Midnapore and placed under a Magistrate of Jungle Mahals. The district thus formed was composed of 23 [[pargana]]s and mahals.

By Regulation XIII of 1833, the district of Jungle Mahals was broken up. The estates of Senpahari, Shergarh and Bishnupur were transferred to [[Burdwan District]] and the remainder constituted the [[Manbhum District]].<ref name=omalley/>

==See also==
*[[Chhota Nagpur Division]]
*[[Jungle Terry]] adivashi dominated region where the chuar lived in forest and they lived in and with the help of forest resource. Britist nemed those regions jangalmahal

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=V1o_PRCLOeMC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&dq=jungle+mahals&source=bl&ots=dZto0Fdpmp&sig=VH9QNWhBalsaiobJbg9VoefA4tw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-3HkU6jRKozt8AXjxICADQ&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=jungle%20mahals&f=false The Jungle and the Aroma of Meats: An Ecological Theme in Hindu Medicine]
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