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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DATIA , a native See also:

state of Central See also:

India, in the See also:

BUNDELKHAND

Bundelkhand agency. It lies in the extreme See also:

north-See also:

west of Bundelkhand, near See also:

GWALIOR

Gwalior, and is surrounded on all sides by other, states of Central India, except on the See also:

east where it meets the See also:

UNITED

United Provinces. The state came under the See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

government after the treaty of See also:

BASSEIN

Bassein in 1802. See also:

AREA

Area, 911 sq. m. Pop. (1901) 173,759. Estimated See also:

revenue, £70,000; See also:

TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute to Sindhia paid through the ' See also:

LAT

Lat. dactylus, See also:

FINGER

finger, hence See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit of the date See also:

palm, gave O. Fr. date, mod. datte; distinguish " date," in See also:

CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology, from Lat. datum, data, given, used at the beginning of a See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter, &c., to show See also:

time and See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

writing, e.g. Datum Romae. British Government, £1000. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, whose See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title is maharaja, is a See also:

RAJPUT

Rajput of the Bundela See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan, being descended from a younger son of a former chief of See also:

ORCHHA, or URCHHA (also called Tehri or Tikamgarh)

Orchha. The state suffered from See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine in 1896-1897, and again to a less extent in 1899-1900.

It is traversed by the See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

INDIAN

Indian Midland railway from See also:

JHANSI

Jhansi to Gwalior. The See also:

TOWN

town of Datia has a railway station, 16 m. from Jhansi. Pop. (1901) 24,071. It is surrounded by a See also:

stone See also:

wall, enclosing handsome palaces, with gardens; the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace of Bir Singh Deo, of the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, is " one of the finest examples of See also:

HINDU

Hindu domestic See also:

ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture in India " (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908).

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