170 
J. Beames —On the Geography of India. 
[No. 3, 
recently published. In fact the dialectic boundaries throughout this 
Subah correspond in a remarkable manner with those of the Sarkars. 
Thus Sarkars Ruhtas, Saran and Champaran speak Bhojpuri, Sarkar 
Bihar Magadhi, Sarkars Tirhut, Hajipur and Miingir Maithili.* This 
coincidence may be merely accidental, and due to the fact that the 
language boundaries were decided by the same considerations as the 
administrative boundaries, namely, the leading natural features of the 
country such as hills, rivers and so on. There are, however, parts where 
no such natural boundary exists, and in those the coincidence is not 
easily to be accounted for. The remarkable tongue-like projection of 
Magadhi south-eastwards beyond Jamui almost as far as Deogarh is 
apparently to be accounted for by the fact that all that country belonged 
to the Rajas of Gidhaur who on conquering it from the Santhals pro¬ 
bably settled it with cultivators from the western parts of their territory 
who naturally spoke Magadhi. 
II. Sarkar MungIr. 
31 mahals, 109,625,981^- dams. Castes various. 2,150 horse. 50,000 
foot* 
1. 
Abhaypur. 
20,00,000 a. 
2. 
tfsla. 
89,760 d. 
3. 
Ango. 
147,800 d. 
4. 
Amblo. 
50,000 d. 
5. 
Bhagalpur. 
46,96,110 d. 
6. 
Balia. 
32,87,320 d. 
7. 
Pharkiyah. 
30,00,000 a. 
8. 
Paharparah. 
140,920 d. 
9. 
Pasai. 
132,300 d. 
10. 
Tanur. 
88,420 d. 
11. 
Chhai. 
92,80,000 d. 
12. 
Chandui. 
3,60,000 a. 
13. 
Dharmpur. 
40,00,000 d. 
14. 
Dand Sukhwarah. 
1,36,000 a. 
15. 
Rohini. 
95,360 d. 
16. 
SaroliL 
17,73,000 d. 
17. 
Sukhdhara. 
670,240 d. 
* I 
think, however, that Mr. Grierson has carried northern Maithili too far to 
the east in Purniah and the Morang. I was Collector of that district for four years, 
and my impression is that Maithili is confined to the parganah of Dharampur which 
formed part of Sarkar Mungir. In central and northern Purniah the language is 
utterly corrupt and too much mixed with Bengali to be fairly called Maithili. This, 
however, will be decided by Part VII of the Series of Grammars. 
