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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 12, p. 159.

GARAMUR 159 shifting of the sandbanks round about. The chief land trade consists in the export of rice to Orissa. Gantak.-Capital of Sikkim State, Bengal. See GANGTOK. Gantarawadi.--One of the KARENNI States, Burma. Ganutia.-Village in the Rampur Hat subdivision of Birbhum District, Bengal, situated in 23° 52′ N. and 87° 50′ E., on the north bank of the Mor river. Population (1901), 407. Ganutia is the centre of the silk industry of Birbhum. A factory was established here in 1786 by a Mr. Frushard. After various vicissitudes, which are related in Hunter's Annals of Rural Bengal, this gentleman succeeded in converting the forest and waste land around Ganutia into thriving and prosperous villages, and founded factories throughout the north- east of Birbhum. His head factory, which is the most imposing edifice in the District, is now the property of the Bengal Silk Com- pany. The industry has seriously declined of late years and now employs only about 500 persons. Garai.-The name given to the upper reaches of the MADHUMATi river in Bengal and Eastern Bengal, forming one of the principal channels by which the waters of the Ganges are carried to the sea, especially during the monsoon when the comparatively high level of the BIZAHMAPUTRA prevents an exit by the more eastern channels. At a former period, while the Ganges was still working its way eastwards, the Garai probably formed its main eastern outlet, and during the nineteenth century there seemed a likelihood of the river reverting to this channel. The Garai, which leaves the Ganges near Kushtia in Nadia District (23° 55′ N. and 89° 9′ E.), flows in a southerly direction from Ganeshpur to Haripur, about 32 miles ; it is 420 yards wide in the rains, and navigable by steamers all the year round. It is spanned by a fine railway bridge of the Eastern Bengal State Railway. [For an account of the history of this river see Fergusson's ` Some Recent Changes in the Delta of the Ganges,' Journal of the Geo- graphical Society, vol. xviii, Pp. 321 seq., and Hunter's Statistical Account of Faradpur, pp. 265 seq.] Garamur.--Village in Sibsagar District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated in 26° 59′ N. and 94° 9′ E., in the MAJULI Island. It is the site of one of the three colleges or sattras, which are held in highest estimation by the Assamese. The Gosains or high priests of these sattras exercise great influence over the people, but they are loyal supporters of the Government and display an enlightened and pro- gressive spirit. The sattra is chiefly supported by the offerings of its numerous disciples. It is said to have received a grant of nearly 40,ooo acres of revenue-free land from the Ahom Rajas; but the proofs of title were destroyed by the Burmans, and the grants lapsed, as the Gosain, who was living at Brindaban, took no steps to support