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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 863 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RAIPUR , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Chhattisgarh See also:division of the Central Provinces. The town is 994 ft. above See also:sea-level, 188 m. E. of See also:Nagpur; and has a station on the See also:Bengal-Nagpur railway. Pop. (1901) 32,114. There are ruins of an immense fort, with many tanks and old temples. It has a See also:German See also:mission and a See also:government high school. The Rajkumar See also:college, for the See also:education of the sons of the chiefs of Chhattisgarh, was transferred here from See also:Jubbulpore in 1894. The DISTRICT OF RAIPUR has an See also:area of 9831 sq. m. It spreads over a vast See also:plateau closed in by ranges of hills branching from the See also:great Vindhyan See also:chain. It is drained by the Seonath and the See also:Mahanadi See also:rivers. Geologically the See also:country consists in the hilly tracts of See also:gneiss and See also:quartzite; the See also:sandstone rocks in the See also:west are intersected with See also:trap dykes.

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Iron ore is abundant, and red ochre of high repute is found. In the interior the See also:principal strata are a soft sandstone See also:slate (covered generally by a layer of See also:laterite See also:gravel) and See also:blue See also:limestone, which crops out in numerous places on the See also:surface and is invariably found in the beds of the rivers. Throughout the plains the See also:soil is generally fertile. The See also:climate is generally See also:good; the mean temperature is 78° F., and the See also:annual rainfall averages 55 in. The See also:population on the See also:present area in 1901 was 1,096,858, showing a decrease of 2.5% in the See also:decade. The principal See also:crop is See also:rice. There are manufactures of See also:cotton goods and brassware. The See also:north-west corner of the district is crossed by the See also:main See also:line of the Bengal-Nagpur railway, and a narrow-See also:gauge See also:branch runs from Raipur town due See also:south. The district suffered severely from See also:famine in 1896-97, and again in 1899-1900. Raipur was governed by a branch of the Haihaivansi See also:dynasty of Ratanpur for many centuries until their deposition by the See also:Mahrattas in 1750. The country was then already in a See also:condition of decay, and soon afterwards it relapsed into See also:absolute anarchy. In 1818 it was taken under British superintendence and made rapid progress.

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fell with the See also:rest of the Nagpur dominions to the British government in 1854. In 1906 its area was reduced by the formation of the new district of See also:Drug.

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