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trade in Berar, and has numerous ginning factories and cotton presses. Among the educational establishments are a government high school, and an See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial school supported by a See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

MISSION

mission. The DISTRICT OF AKOLA as reconstituted in 1905 has an See also:

AREA

area of 4111 sq. m., the population of this area in 1901 being 754,804. (Before the alteration of the boundaries the area of the district was 2678 sq. m., and the population 582,540.) The See also:

SURFACE

surface of the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is generally See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat, the greater See also:

PART

part being situated in the central valley of Berar. On the See also:

north it is bounded by the Melghat hills. By the addition of See also:

BASIM

Basim and Mangrul taluks in 1905, the district includes the eastern part of the See also:

AJANTA (more properly AJUNTHA)

Ajanta hills, with peaks rising to 2000 ft., and the tableland of Basim (q.v.).

North of the Ajanta hills the country is drained eastward by the See also:

PUMA

Puma affluent of the See also:

TAPTI

Tapti and its tributaries. None of the See also:

rivers is navigable. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate resembles that of Berar generally, but the See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat during See also:

APRIL

April to See also:

mid-See also:

JUNE

June, when the rains begin, is very great, the See also:

AVERAGE

average temperature at the town of Akola in May for the twenty-five years ending 1901 being 94.4° F. But even during the hot See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season the nights are cool. The See also:

ANNUAL

annual rainfall averages 34 in. In the Purna valley the See also:

SOIL

soil is every-where a See also:

rich See also:

black See also:

LOAM (O.E. lam; the word appears in Dut. leem and Ger. Lehm; the ultimate origin is the root lai-, meaning " to be sticky," which is seen in the cognate " lime," Lat. limus, mud, clay)

loam, and nearly the whole of the See also:

LAND

land is cultivated. Very little land is under See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop is cotton, and the See also:

STAPLE

staple See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain See also:

millet. See also:

Wheat and pulses are also grown. The See also:

HISTORY

history of Akola is not distinguished from that of the other portions of Berar. In 1317-1.318 it was added to the See also:

DELHI, DEHLI

Delhi See also:

EMPIRE

empire, became See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent under the Bahmani See also:

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty in 1348, and in 1596 again See also:

fell under the sway of the Moguls. In 1724 it came, with the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of Berar, under the dominion of the See also:

NIZAM

nizam, being assigned to the See also:

BRITISH

British in 1853.

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