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Encyclopedia Britannica



GANGPUR

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 452 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GANGPUR , a tributary state of
Orissa
 , Bengal, included until 1905 among the Chota Nagpur States. It is bounded N. by Ranchi
district
 , E. by the Singhbhum
district
 , S. by
Sambalpur
  and Bamra, and W. by Raigarh in the Central Provinces. The country is for the most part an undulating plain, broken by detached ranges of hills, one of which, the Mahavira range, possesses a very remarkable
appearance
 , springing abruptly from the plain in an irregular
wall
  of tilted and disrupted
rock
 , with two flanking peaks. The rivers are the Ib and the Brahmani, formed here by the
union
  of the Sankh and the
South
  Koel, both navigable by canoes. The Ib was formerly famous on account of diamonds found in its bed, and its sands are still washed for gold. One of the largest coalfields in India extends into the state, and iron ore is also found. Jungle productslac,
silk
  cocoons, catechu and resin, which are exported; wild animalsbisons, buffaloes, tigers, leopards, hyenas, wolves, jackals, wild dogs and many sorts of deer. Area, 2492 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 238,896; estimated revenue, 16,000.


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