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HOSHANGABAD

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 787 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOSHANGABAD , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Nerbudda See also:division of the Central Provinces. The town stands on the See also:left See also:bank of the Nerbudda, 1oo9 ft. above the See also:sea, and has a railway station. Pop. (19o1), 14,940. It is supposed to have been founded by Hoshang Shah, the second of the Ghori See also:kings of Dialwa, in the 15th See also:century; but it remained an in-significant See also:place till the See also:Bhopal See also:conquest about 1720, when a massive See also:stone fort was constructed, with its See also:base on the See also:river, commanding the Bhopal road. It sustained several sieges during the 18th century, and passed alternately into the hands of the Bhopal and See also:Nagpur rulers. Since 1518 it has been the See also:residence of the See also:chief British officials in See also:charge of the district. It has a See also:government high school, and agricultural school and a See also:brass-working See also:industry. The DISTRICT OF HOSHANGABAD has an See also:area of 3676 sq. m. Pop. (1901), 449,165, showing a decrease of 10% in the See also:decade, due to See also:famine. It may be described as a valley of varying breadth, extending for 150 M. between the Nerbudda river and the See also:Satpura mountains.

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soil consists chiefly of See also:black basaltic See also:alluvium, often more than 20 ft. deep; but along the See also:banks of the Nerbudda the fertility of the See also:land compensates for the tameness of the scenery. Towards the See also:west, See also:low stony hills and broken ridges cut up the level ground, while the Vindhyas and the Satpuras throw out jutting spurs and ranges. In this wilder See also:country considerable regions are covered with See also:jungle. On the See also:south the lofty range which shuts in the valley is remarkable in See also:mountain scenery, surpassing in its picturesque irregularity the Vindhyan See also:chain in the See also:north. Many streams take their rise amid its precipices, then, winding through deep glens, flow across the See also:plain between sandy banks covered with low jungle till they swell the See also:waters of the Nerbudda. None is of any importance except the Tawa, which is interesting to the geologist on See also:account of the many minerals to be found along its course. The boundary See also:rivers, the Nerbudda and See also:Tapti, are the only considerable waters in Hoshangabad. The See also:principal crops are See also:wheat, millets and oil-seeds. The district is traversed through-out its length by the See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway.

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