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AMRAOTI, or UMRAWATTEE

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMRAOTI, or UMRAWATTEE , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:India, in See also:Berar, Central Provinces. The district was reconstituted in 1905, when that of See also:Ellichpur was incorporated with it. The town has a station 6 m. from Badnera junction on the See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula See also:line. Pop. (1901) 34,216, showing an increase of 22% in the See also:decade. It is the richest town of Berar, with the most numerous and substantial commercial See also:population. It possesses a See also:branch of the See also:Bank of Bombay, and has the largest See also:cotton mart, where an See also:average of 80,593 bojas of cotton are bought and sold annually. It has also a large See also:grain See also:market, cotton presses, ginning factories and oil See also:mills. Amraoti raw cotton is quoted on the See also:Liverpool See also:Exchange. The district of Amraoti has an See also:area of 4954 sq. m. In 1901 the population was 630,245, showing a decrease of 4% in the decade; on the area as now constituted it was 809,499. The district is an extensive See also:plain, about 800 ft. above See also:sea-level, the See also:general flatness being only broken by a small See also:chain of hills, See also:running in a See also:north-See also:westerly direction between Amraoti and Chandor, with an average height from 400 to 500 ft. above the lowlands.

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principal towns, besides Amraoti, are Karinja, Kolapur, and Badnera, which lies on the Great Indian Peninsula railway, the See also:main line of which crosses the district. Severe drought visited Amraoti in 1899-1900.

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