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HAZARIBAGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 117 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAZARIBAGH , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Chota See also:Nagpur See also:division of See also:Bengal. The town is well situated at an See also:elevation of 2000 ft. Pop. (See also:tool) 15,799. Hazaribagh has ceased to be a military See also:cantonment since the See also:European See also:penitentiary was abolished. There are a central jail and a reformatory school. The See also:Dublin University See also:Mission maintains a First Arts See also:college. The DISTRICT comprises an See also:area of 7021 sq. m. In 1901 the See also:population was 1,177,961, showing an increase of I%o in the See also:decade. The See also:physical formation of Hazaribagh exhibits three distinct features: (I) a high central See also:plateau occupying the western See also:section, the See also:surface of which is undulating and cultivated; (2) a See also:lower and more extensive plateau stretching along the See also:north and eastern portions; to the north, the See also:land is well cultivated, while to the See also:east the See also:country is of a more varied See also:character, the elevation is lower, and the character of a plateau is gradually lost; (3) the central valley of the Damodar See also:river occupying the entire See also:southern section. Indeed, although the characteristics of the district are See also:rock, See also:hill and wide-spreading See also:jungle, See also:fine patches of cultivation are met with in all parts, and the scenery is generally pleasing and often striking. The district forms a See also:part of the See also:chain of high land which extends across the See also:continent of India, See also:south of the See also:Nerbudda on the See also:west, and south of the See also:Sone river on the east.

The most important river is the Damodar, with its many tributaries, which drains an area of 2480 sq. m. The See also:

history of the district is involved in obscurity until 1755, about which See also:time a certain Mukund Singh was See also:chief of the country. In a few years he was superseded by Tej Singh, who had gained the assistance of the British. In 178o Hazaribagh, along with the surrounding territory, passed under See also:direct British See also:rule. The district contains an important See also:coal-See also:field at Giridih which supplies the East See also:Indian railway. There are altogether six mines. There are also See also:mica mines which are gaining in importance. See also:Rice and oilseeds are the See also:principal crops. See also:Tea cultivation has been tried but does not flourish, and is almost See also:extinct. The only See also:railways are the See also:branch of the East Indian to the coal-field at Giridih, where there is a technical school maintained by the railway See also:company, and the newly-opened Gaya-Katrasgarh chord See also:line; but the district is traversed by the See also:Grand See also:Trunk road. See also:Parasnath hill is annually visited by large See also:numbers of Jain worshippers.

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