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CHAPRA, or CHUPRA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPRA, or CHUPRA , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, the administrative headquarters of See also:Saran See also:district in See also:Bengal, near the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Gogra, just above its confluence with the See also:Ganges; with a railway station on the Bengal & See also:North-Western See also:line towards Oudh. Pop. (1901) 45,901, showing a decrease of 21% in the See also:decade. There are a See also:government high school, a See also:German Lutheran See also:mission, and a public library endowed by a former maharaja of Hatwa. Chapra is the centre of See also:trade in See also:indigo and See also:saltpetre, and conducts a large business by See also:water as well as by See also:rail.

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