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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 242 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NARSINGHPUR , 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 is on the See also:river Singri, and has a railway station 52 M. E. of See also:Jubbulpore; pop. (1901) 11,233. The district has an See also:area of 1976 sq. m. It forms a portion of the upper See also:part of the Nerbudda valley. The first of those wide alluvial basins which, alternating with rocky See also:gorges, give so varied a See also:character to the river's course, opens out just below the famous See also:marble rocks in Jubbulpore, and extends westward for 225 m., including the whole of Narsinghpur, together with the greater part of See also:Hoshangabad. The See also:Satpura hills to the See also:south are here a generally See also:regular range, nowhere more than 500 ft. above the See also:plain, and See also:running almost parallel to the river, at a distance of 15 or 20 m. In the intervening valley, the See also:rich level of See also:black See also:wheat See also:land is seldom broken, except by occasional mounds of See also:gravel or nodular See also:limestone, which afford serviceable See also:village sites. Along the See also:foot of the boundary hills the See also:alluvium gives way to belts of red gravelly See also:soil, See also:rice and See also:sugar-See also:cane take the See also:place of wheat, and See also:forest trees that of See also:mango groves. The See also:population in 1901 was 315,518, showing a decrease of 14.5% in the See also:decade, due to See also:famine. The See also:principal crops are wheat, millets, rice, pulses, oil-seeds and See also:cotton.

There are manufactures of cotton, See also:

silk, See also:brass and See also:iron-See also:ware. At Mohpani are See also:coal-mines. The See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway runs through the district, with a See also:branch to Mohpani. See Narsinghpur District Gazetteer (Bombay, 1906).

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