Jungle Terry

Jungle Terry
जंगल तराई
Area of British India

1779 map of the Jungle Terry District.
Succeeded by
Jungle Mahals
A View in the Jungle Terry by William Hodges, 1782.

Jungle Terry or Jungleterry, from Hindi: जंगल तराई jangal tarāi, meaning 'jungle lowland', was a term applied in the 18th century to an area bordering Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand that included large tracts of Bhagalpur and Monghyr districts, as well as the Santal Parganas district.

Although named as such, rather than an official district, the Jungle Terry was a vague border area. The district named Jungle Mahals would be established later in 1805.[1]

  1. ^ Bengal District Gazetteers Bankura[dead link], O’Malley, L.S.S., ICS, 1908, Barcode(99999990038739), Language english, pp. 21-41, 1995 reprint, Government of West Bengal from Digital Library of India Archived 2016-02-29 at the Wayback Machine