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'''Chanvar''' fields encompass single plot of 96,000 [[bhiga]]s of cultivable land without any houses on it. It is part of Gangetic flood plains of [[Mirzapur]] district in Uttar Pradesh. (''Bhiga'' means ''wet'' or ''wetted'';<ref>{{cite book<br />
|last = Turner<br />
|first = Sir Ralph Lilley<br />
|author-link = Ralph Lilley Turner<br />
|author2 = Dorothy Rivers Turner<br />
|title = A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages.<br />
|url = https://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=soas&query=bhiga+&matchtype=exact&display=utf8<br />
|access-date = December 31, 2012<br />
|edition = Accompanied by three supplementary volumes: ''indexes'', compiled by Dorothy Rivers Turner: 1969. – ''Phonetic analysis'': 1971. – ''Addenda et corrigenda'': 1985.<br />
|orig-year = 1962<br />
|date = January 2006<br />
|publisher = Oxford University Press<br />
|location = London<br />
|page = 542<br />
|quote = 9500 : bhigā ' wet '<br />
}}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 1 bhiga = 100 square [[rod (unit)|rod]]s, 3025 square [[yard (unit)|yard]]s or 0.2529 [[hectare]]s; 96,000 bhigas accordingly encompasses 60,000 [[acre]]s.<ref>[http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/area/rod2.html convert-me square rod]</ref>)<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Cartography of India]]<br />
* [[Great Trigonometric Survey]]<br />
* [[Nibi Gaharwar]]<br />
{{coord missing|Uttar Pradesh}}<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [http://www.rocketflip.com/?v=YuBVNR8icME Harvesting at Nibi Gaharwar Chanvar Fields ]<br />
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[[Category:Villages in Mirzapur district]]<br />
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{{Mirzapur district}}<br />
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