BARASAT

barasat, a subdivisional town in the district of the twenty-four parganas, bengal, india. for a considerable time barasat town was the headquarters of a joint magistracy, known as the "barasat district," but in 1861, on a readjustment of boundaries barasat district was abolished by order of government, and was converted into a subdivision of the twenty-four parganas. pop. (1901) 8634. it forms a striking illustration of the rural character of the so-called "towns" in bengal, and is merely an agglomeration of 41 separate villages, in which all the operations of husbandry go on precisely as in the adjacent hamlets.