RAUJESHY, a district in Bengal, situated principally between the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth degrees of north latitude. It is bounded on the north by Dinagepore and Mymunsingh; on the south by Birbhoom and Kishenagur; on the east by Dacca, Jelalpoor, and Mymunsingh; and on the west by Monghir and Birbhoom. It is the most unwieldy zemindary in Bengal, comprehending an area of 12,909 square miles, and is intersected in its whole length by the Ganges and its lesser branches, with many navigable rivers and fertilizing streams. In answer to the inquiries of the Marquis Wellesley in the year 1801, the population was returned at 1,500,000.