The name is after Michael Lloyd Ferrar, a commissioner and butterfly collector.
It is a division known locally as a tehsil, roughly equivalent to a county in its range of administrative powers.
As of 2011 census, Bengali is spoken as the first language by 24.23 percent of the tehsil's population.
Largest language's population are Bengali 12,981 Malayalam 9,211 Hindi 8,768 Tamil 7,634 Telugu 7,040 Sadri 3,359 Kurukh 2,416 Kharia 545 Munda 377.
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