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NANDGAON

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 161 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NANDGAON , a feudatory See also:

state of See also:India, in the See also:Chhattisgarh See also:division of the Central Provinces. See also:Area, 871 sq. m.; pop. (1901) 126,356, showing a decrease of 31% in the See also:decade, due to See also:famine; estimated See also:revenue £23,000; See also:tribute £4600. The state has a See also:peculiar See also:history. Its See also:foundation is traced to a religious celibate, who came from the See also:Punjab towards the end of the 18th See also:century. From the founder it passed through a See also:succession of chosen disciples until 1879, when the See also:British See also:government recognized the ruler as an hereditary See also:chief and afterwards conferred upon his son the See also:title of See also:Raja Bahadur. The state has See also:long been well administered, and has derived additional prosperity from the construction of the See also:Bengal-See also:Nagpur railway, which has a station at Raj-Nandgaon, the See also:capital (pop. 11,094). Here there is a See also:steam See also:cotton See also:mill.

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