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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BULDANA , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:India, in See also:Berar. The town had a See also:population in 1901 of 4137. The district has an See also:area of 3662 sq. m. The See also:southern See also:part forms a portion of Berar See also:Balaghat or Berar—above the See also:Ghats. Here the See also:general See also:contour of the See also:country may be described as a See also:succession of small plateaus decreasing in See also:elevation to the extreme See also:south. Towards the eastern See also:side of the district the country assumes more the See also:character of undulating high lands, favoured with See also:soil of a See also:good quality. A succession of plateaus descends from the highest ridges on the See also:north to the south, where a See also:series of small ghats See also:march with the See also:nizam's territory. The small fertile valleys between the plateaus are watered by streams during the greater portion of the See also:year, while See also:wells of particularly good and pure See also:water are numerous. These valleys are favourite See also:village sites. The north portion of the district occupies the See also:rich valley of the Purna. The district is rich in agricultural produce; in a seasonable year a many-coloured See also:sheet of cultivation, almost without a break, covers the valley of the Purna. In the Balaghat also the crops are very See also:fine.

Situated as the district is in the neighbourhood cf the See also:

great See also:cotton See also:market of See also:Khamgaon, and nearer to Bombay than the other Berar districts, markets for its agricultural produce on favourable terms are easily found. In 1901 the population was 423,616, showing a decrease of 12% in the See also:decade due to the effects of See also:famine. The district was reconstituted, and given an additional area of 853 sq. m. in 1905; the population on the enlarged area in 1901 was 613,756. The only manufacture is cotton See also:cloth. Cotton, See also:wheat and oil-seeds are largely exported. The See also:Nagpur See also:line of the Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway runs through the north of the district. The most important See also:place of See also:trade is Malkapur—pop. (1901) 13,112—with several factories for ginning and pressing cotton.

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