Subject: Tin Bigha<br/>
Date: Apr 03, 2005 @ 04:24<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (Brendan Whyte &lt;bwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-4096721">The original area the corridor was formed in was called Tin Bigha, I <br/>
believe, rather than the corridor being 3 bighas in extent.<br/>
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At 11:18 AM 29/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Message: 9<br/>
&gt;    Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:41:33 -0800 (PST)<br/>
&gt;    From: Arif Samad &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:fHoiberg@...">fHoiberg@...</a>&gt;<br/>
&gt;Subject: Tin<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;I think I mentioned that oddity already, as this fact<br/>
&gt;always did bother me.  Tin does means three and not<br/>
&gt;ten, but Tin Bigha is close to ten or eleven bighas.<br/>
&gt;Possibly the original corridor was smaller but<br/>
&gt;untenable, or it may have been measured wrong.<br/>
&gt;Unfortunately, even though I am a Bangladeshi, Brendan<br/>
&gt;is more likely to know the origin.<br/>
&gt;Arif<br/>
&gt;BTW, the word Tin does not sound like the metal.  The<br/>
&gt;T is a soft T like the french word tres<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Dr Brendan Whyte<br/>
Assistant Map Curator<br/>
ERC Library<br/>
University of Melbourne<br/>
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