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BROACH, or BHARUCH

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 620 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BROACH, or BHARUCH , an See also:ancient See also:city and See also:modern See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:northern See also:division of Bombay. The city is on the right See also:bank of the See also:Nerbudda, about 30 M. from the See also:sea, and 203 M. N. of Bombay. The See also:area, including suburbs; occupies 2g sq. m. Pop. (1901) 42,896. The sea-See also:borne See also:trade is confined to a few See also:coasting vessels. Handloom-See also:weaving is almost See also:extinct, but several See also:cotton See also:mills have been opened. There are also large See also:flour-mills. Broach is the Barakacheva of the See also:Chinese traveller Hsiian Tsang and the Barygaza of See also:Ptolemy and See also:Arrian. Upon the See also:conquest of See also:Gujarat by the Mahommedans, and the formation of the See also:state of that name, Broach formed See also:part of the new See also:kingdom. On its overthrow by See also:Akbar in 1572, it was annexed to the See also:Mogul See also:empire and governed by a See also:Nawab.

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Mahrattas became its masters in 1685, from which See also:period it was held in subordination to the See also:peshwa until 1772, when it was captured by a force under See also:General See also:Wedderburn (See also:brother to See also:Lord Lough-See also:borough), who was killed in the See also:assault. In 1783 it was ceded by the British to Sindhia in See also:acknowledgment of certain services. It was stormed in 1803 by a detachment commanded by See also:Colonel Woodington, and was finally ceded to the See also:East India See also:Company by Sindhia under the treaty of Sarji Anjangaom. The DISTRICT OF BROACH contains an area of 1467 sq. m. Consisting chiefly of the alluvial See also:plain at the mouth of the See also:river Nerbudda, the See also:land is See also:rich and highly cultivated, and though it is without forests it is not wanting in trees. The district is well supplied with See also:rivers, having in addition to the Nerbudda the See also:Mahi in the See also:north and the Kim in the See also:south. The See also:population comprises several distinct races or castes, who, while speaking a See also:common See also:dialect, See also:Gujarati, inhabit See also:separate villages. Thus there are Koli, Kunbi or Voro (See also:Bora) villages, and others whose lands are almost entirely held and cultivated by high castes, such as Rajputs, Brahmans or Parsecs. In 1901 the population was 291,763, showing a decrease of 15%,•compared with an increase of 5 % in the preceding See also:decade. The See also:principal crops are cotton; See also:millet, See also:wheat and See also:pulse. Dealing in cotton is the See also:chief See also:industry, the dealers being organized in a gild. Besides the cotton mills in Broach city there are several factories for ginning and pressing cotton, some of them on a very large See also:scale.

The district is traversed throughout its length by the Bombay & See also:

Baroda railway, which crosses the Nerbudda opposite Broach city on an See also:iron-girder See also:bridge of 67 spans. The district suffered severely from the See also:famine of 1899-1900.

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