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CHAMPARAN, or CWJMPARUN

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAMPARAN, or CWJMPARUN , a See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Patna See also:division of See also:Bengal, occupying the See also:north-See also:west corner of See also:Behar, between the two See also:rivers See also:Gandak and Baghmati and the See also:Nepal hills. It has an See also:area of 3531 sq. m. In 1901 the See also:population was 1,790,463, showing a decrease of 4% in the See also:decade. A broad grass-covered road or See also:embankment defines the Nepal frontier, except where rivers or streams See also:form a natural boundary. The district is a vast level except in the N. and N.W., where it undulates, and gradually assumes a rugged See also:appearance as it approaches the mountains and forests of Nepal. Wide uncultivated tracts See also:cover its north-western corner; the See also:southern and western parts are carefully cultivated, and teem with an active agricultural population. The See also:principal rivers are the Gandak, navigable all the See also:year See also:round, the See also:Buri Gandak, Panch Nadi, Lalbagia, Koja and Teur. Old beds of rivers intersect Champaran in every direction, and one of these forms a See also:chain of lakes which occupy an area of 139 sq. m. in the centre of the district. Champaran, with the See also:rest of Bengal and Behar, was acquired by the British in 1765. Up to 1866 it remained a subdivision of See also:Saran. In that year it was separated and formed into a See also:separate district. The administrative headquarters are at Motihari (population, 13,730); See also:Bettia is the centre of a very large See also:estate; Segauli, still a small military station, was the See also:scene of a See also:massacre during the See also:Mutiny.

Champaran was the See also:

chief seat of See also:indigo planting in Behar before the decline of that See also:industry. There are about 40 See also:saltpetre refineries. The district suffered severely from drought in 1866 and 1874, and again in 1897. In the last year a small See also:government See also:canal was opened, and a canal from the Gandak has also been constructed. The district is traversed almost throughout its length to Bettia by the Tirhoot See also:state railway. A considerable See also:trade is conducted with Nepal.

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