CHHINDWARA

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CHHINDWARA , a town and

district

DISTRICT

of British India, in the Nerbudda division of the Central Provinces. The site of the town is 2200 ft. above sea-level, and is surrounded by ranges of low hills. The European station extends for nearly 2 M. and is well wooded. It is considered very healthy, and forms a resort for European visitors from Nagpur and Kampti during the hot weather.
The area of the

DISTRICT

DISTRICT

OF CHHINDWARA iS 4631 Sq. M. It has two natural subdivisipnsthe hill country above. the slopes of the Satpura mountains, called the Balaghat, and a

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

of low land to the

south

SOUTH
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called the Zerghat. The high tableland of the Balaghat lies for the most part upon the

great

GREAT

basaltic formation which stretches across the Satpuras as far

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

as Jubbulpore. The country consists of a regular succession of hills and fertile valleys, formed by the small ranges which cross its surface

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

and west. The average height of the uplands is 2500 ft., but there are many points of greater

elevation

ELEVATION

. The

appearance

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

of the Zerghat below the hills is generally open and undulating. The country is intersected by several streams, of which the Kanhan is the most considerable. Near the hills and along the streams are strips and patches of jungle; the villages are usually surrounded
with picturesque groves of tamarind, mango and other shade-giving trees. In the hill-country the climate is temperate and healthy. In the cold season ice is frequently seen in the small tanks at an

elevation

ELEVATION

of about 2000 ft. Until May the hot wind is little felt, while during the rains the weather is cool and agreeable. The average annual rainfall amounts to 36 in. Pop. ('go') 407,927. There are manufactures of

cotton

cloth and brass-

ware

WARE

. Coal in this neighbourhood began to be worked after the opening of a branch of the Bengal-Nagpur railway to Chhindwara and the coalfields to the north in 1905.
Chhindwara formed part of the dominions of the ancient Gond dynasty of Chhindwara and Nagpur, whose seat was at Deogarh until, in the '8th century, it was removed by Chand Sultan, son of Bakht Buland (founder of the short-lived greatness of the dynasty, and of the city of Nagpur) to Nagpur (see GONDWANA and NAGPUR).

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