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Chanvar fields encompass single plot of 96,000 bhiga of cultivable land without any houses on it. It is part of Gangetic flood plains of Mirzapur district in Uttar Pradesh. (Bhiga means wet or wetted; 1 bhiga = 100 square rods, 3025 square yards or 0.2529 hectares; 96,000 bhiga accordingly encompasses 60,000 acres.)

See also

• Cartography of India
• Great Trigonometric Survey
• Nibi Gaharwar

References

1. Turner, Sir Ralph Lilley; Dorothy Rivers Turner (January 2006) . 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. Retrieved 31 December 2012. 9500 : bhigā ' wet '
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External links

• Harvesting at Nibi Gaharwar Chanvar Fields

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