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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 680 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PANNA, or PUNNA

PANNA, or PUNNA , a native See also:

state of Central See also:

India, in the See also:

BUNDELKHAND

Bundelkhand agency. See also:

AREA

Area, 2492 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 192,986, showing a decrease of 19% in the preceding See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade due to See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine; See also:

TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute £33,000. The See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief, whose See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title is maharaja, is a See also:

RAJPUT

rajput of the Bundela See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan, descended from Chhatar Sal, the See also:

CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of the See also:

independence of Bundelkhand in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The maharaja Lokpal Singh died in 1898, leaving an only son, Madho Singh, who, in 1902, was found guilty by a See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission on the See also:

charge of poisoning his See also:

UNCLE

uncle, and was deposed. The See also:

DIAMOND

diamond mines, for which the state was formerly famous, are now scarcely profitable. There are no See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, but one or two See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good roads. The See also:

TOWN

town of PANNA is 62 m. S. of See also:

BANDA

Banda. Pop. (1901), 11,346. It has a See also:

FINE

fine See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and several handsome temples and shrines.

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