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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 565 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANDLA , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Jubbulpore See also:division of the Central Provinces. The town is on the See also:river See also:Nerbudda, 1787 ft. above the See also:sea. It has a manufacture of See also:bell-See also:metal vessels. Pop. (Igor), 5054. The district of Mandla, among the See also:Satpura hills, has an See also:area of 5054 sq. m. It consists of a See also:wild highland region, broken up by the valleys of numerous See also:rivers and streams. The Nerbudda flows through the centre of the district, receiving several tributaries which take their rise in the Maikal hills, a range densely clothed with sal See also:forest, and forming See also:part of the See also:great See also:watershed between eastern and western India. The loftiest See also:mountain is Chauradadar, about 3400 ft. high. Tigers abound, and the proportion of deaths caused by wild animals is greater than in any other district of the Central Provinces. The magnificent sal forests which formerly clothed the See also:highlands have suffered greatly from the nomadic See also:system of cultivation practised by the See also:hill tribes, who burned the See also:wood and sowed their crops in the ashes; but See also:measures have been taken to prevent further damage. The See also:population in 1901 was 318,400, showing a decrease of 6.5% in the See also:decade, due to See also:famine.

The aboriginal or hill tribes are more numerous in Mandla than in any other district of the Central Provinces, particularly the Gonds. The See also:

principal crops are See also:rice, See also:wheat, other See also:food grains, See also:pulse and oil-seeds. There is a little manufacture of See also:country See also:cloth. A See also:branch of the See also:Bengal-See also:Nagpur railway touches the See also:south-western border of the district. Mandla suffered most severely from the famine of 1896–1897, partly owing to its inaccessibility, and partly from the shy habits of the aboriginal tribes. The registered See also:death-See also:rate in 1907 was as high as 96 per thousand.

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