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Which district was your family from?
Tap a dot to jump to that district's gazetteer in the catalog. Not sure? Take the quiz.
Dots are the approximate centers of the districts we hold gazetteers for. Borders shown are today's, from Natural Earth (public domain). District boundaries changed after 1947 and again since, so use the gazetteer to check which villages belonged to which district.
Context
Bengal in ten dates
A short frame for reading the catalog. The gazetteers, for instance, were written for the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, which existed only from 1905 to 1912.
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