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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RADHANPUR , a native See also:

state of See also:

India, in the See also:

PALANPUR

Palanpur agency, Bombay. It is situated in the See also:

north-western corner of See also:

GUJARAT

Gujarat, See also:

close to the Runn of See also:

Cutch. The See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is an open See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain without hills and with few trees. It contains an See also:

AREA

area of 115o sq. m. with a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in Igor of 61,548, showing a decrease of 37 % during the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade, due to the results of See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine. The estimated See also:

revenue is £27,000. The See also:

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

chief products are See also:

cotton, See also:

wheat and the See also:

COMMON

common varieties of See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain; the only manufactureof any importance is the preparation of a See also:

FINE

fine description of See also:

SALTPETRE (from the Lat. sal, salt, Petra, a rock)

saltpetre. Radhanpur first came under See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PROTECTION

protection in 1813. The chief, whose See also:

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

title is See also:

NAWAB

Nawab, belongs to the Babi See also:

FAMILY

family, who have held See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in Gujarat for more than twa centuries. The See also:

TOWN

town of Radhanpur had a population in 1901 of 11,879. It is a walled town, with an export See also:

trade in See also:

rape-See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, grain and cotton.

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