Chanvar

Chanvar fields encompass single plot of 96,000 bhigas of cultivable land without any houses on it. It is located on Gangetic flood plains of Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh, and considered to be one of the most fertile lands tracts in India. (Bhiga means wet or wetted;[1] 1 bhiga = 100 square rods, 3025 square yards or 0.2529 hectares; 96,000 bhigas accordingly encompasses 60,000 acres.[2])

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  1. ↑ Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley; Dorothy Rivers Turner (January 2006) [1962]. A comparative dictionary of the Indo-Aryan languages. (Accompanied by three supplementary volumes: indexes, compiled by Dorothy Rivers Turner: 1969. – Phonetic analysis: 1971. – Addenda et corrigenda: 1985. ed.). London: Oxford University Press,. p. 542 quote= 9500 : bhigā ' wet '. Retrieved December 31, 2012. line feed character in |page= at position 4 (help)
  2. ↑ convert-me square rod

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