ABSTRACT
The Sundarbans area of Khulna had been excluded from the thakbast survey, which had demarcated and mapped revenue villages or mauzas which in other areas had been generally adopted for revenue purposes on the basis of the Revenue Survey map. From that time the administration has considered primarily the physical conditions and requirements of each part of the tract, and it is the recognition of the power of nature that must form the future basis of development and administration in the Sundarbans. The period from 1903 is accordingly, with the exception of the grant for reclamation of a portion of lots 164 and 216 entirely a history of surveys and resettlements. Classes 9 and 10 are naturally excluded from resettlement, while the leases of 1853 being for a term of 99 years and those of 1879 being for 40 years fall in at later dates.
