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CHHATTISGARH , a See also:division of the Central Provinces of See also:India, comprising a See also:British division (21,240 sq. m.) and two small feudatory states, See also:Raigarh (1486 sq. m.) and Sarangarh (540 sq. m.). In 1905 the five See also:Oriya states of See also:Bamra, Rairakhol, Sonpur, See also:Patna and See also:Kalahandi were transferred from the Central Provinces to See also:Bengal. Chhattisgarh, or " the See also:thirty-six forts," is a See also:low-lying See also:plain, enclosed on every See also:side by hills and forests, while a rocky barrier shuts it off from the See also:Nagpur plain on the See also:west. Two See also:great See also:rivers, the See also:Nerbudda and See also:Sone, take their rise at the side of the Amarkantak See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill in the See also:north-west corner of the division, the Nerbudda flowing nearly due west to the Bombay See also:coast, the Sone ultimately falling into the See also:Ganges in See also:Lower Bengal. Protected on both sides by ranges of hills, the See also:district was, until See also:late years, the least known portion of the most obscure division of India, but recently it has been opened up by the Bengal-Nagpur railway, and has See also:developed into a great See also:grain-producing See also:country. Its See also:population is almost pure See also:Hindu, except in the two great tracts of hill and See also:forest, where the aboriginal tribes retired before the See also:Aryan invasion. It remained comparatively unaffected either by the Oriya See also:immigration on the See also:east, or by the later influx of See also:Mahrattas on the west. For though the Mahrattas conquered and governed the country for a See also:period, they did not take See also:possession of the See also:land. In 1901 the population of the two remaining feudatory states was 125,281, Raigarh having 86,543 and Sarangarh 38,738. Much of the See also:soil is still covered with forest, but it includes fertile See also:rice land.
The British division of Chhattisgarh comprises the three districts of See also:Drug (created in 1906), See also:Raipur and See also:Bilaspur. In 1905 the district of See also:Sambalpur, together with the five feudatory states, was transferred to Bengal. In 1901 the population of the reduced See also:area was 2,642,983.
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