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KISHANGARH TOWN
The town and fort occupy a picturesque position on the banks of an
old lake, over a square mile in extent, called Gûndolao, in the centre
of which is a small garden known as the Mohkam Bilâs. The
Maharaja's palace is in the fort and commands a fine view of
the surrounding country. The principal industrial occupations of the
people are cloth-weaving, dyeing, the cutting of precious stones, and
the manufacture of drinking vessels and betel-nut boxes from khas-
hhas grass. A municipal committee, established in 1886, attends to
the lighting, conservancy, and slaughter-house arrangements. The
town possesses a combined post and telegraph office; a couple of
jails, with accommodation for 123 prisoners; a hospital, with beds
for 12 in-patients; and 11 schools, attended by about 400 boys and
50 girls. Of these schools, three are maintained by the State and
two by the United Free Church of Scotland Mission. The Mahâ-
raja's high school is affiliated to the Allahâbad University, and
teaches up to the middle standard in both English and vernacular;
the number on its rolls is 294, and the daily average attendance
27o. About a mile and a half north of the town and close to the
railway station, a flourishing suburb, called Madanganj after the
present chief, has sprung up. It contains a steam hydraulic cotton-
press, and a spinning- and weaving-mill. The latter, which was opened
in 1897, has 10,348 spindles and employs about 5oo hands. In 19o4
the total out-turn exceeded 685 tons of yarn, and the receipts were
about 4.6 lakhs.
Kishenganj.-Subdivision and town in Purnea District, Beflgal.
See KISHANGANJ.
Kishorganj Subdivision.-South-eastern subdivision of Mymen-
singh District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, lying between 24° 2′ and
24° 38′ N. and 90° 35′ and 91° 16′ E., with an area of 985 square
miles. The population in 19or was 719,184, compared with 643,381
in 1891. It contains two towns, KISHORGANJ (population, 16,246),
the head-quarters, and BnJITPUR (10,027); and 1,661 villages. It
is an alluvial tract, intersected by marshes, and is subject to annual
inundations and deposits of fertilizing silt from the Meghnd and its
tributaries. It is, after Tangail, the most populous subdivision in the
District, the density being 730 persons per square mile, against an
average of 6r8 for the whole District. There are important markets
at BHAIRAB BAZAR, KARÎMGANJ, and KATIADI.
Kishorganj Town.--Head-quarters of the subdivision of the same
name in Mymensingh District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated in
24° 26′ N. and 90° 46′ E., on the Kundali Khâl, 13 miles east of the
Brahmaputra. Population (19o1), 16,246. An annual fair is held here
during the Jhulanjâtra, a festival in honour of Krishna lasting for a
month from the middle of July to the middle of August. Kishorganj
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