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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANCHI , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Chota See also:Nagpur See also:division of See also:Bengal. The town, which is situated on the Chota Nagpur See also:plateau, about 2100 ft. above See also:sea-level, is the headquarters of both the division and the district. Pop. (1901) 25,970. It is an important centre of See also:local See also:trade and the headquarters of the See also:German Lutheran See also:mission. There are a high school and an See also:industrial school, and it is proposed to found here a residential See also:college for all Bengal. The cantonments, formerly called Doranda, accommodate a detachment of native See also:infantry. The DISTRICT OF RANCHI, formerly called Lohardaga after the town which was its headquarters, has an See also:area of 7128 sq. m. It consists of two tablelands, of which the higher rises to about 2000 ft. The whole area is broken by hills and undulations, which are terraced for See also:rice. The steep slopes are covered with a dense See also:forest, where See also:wild animals still abound, but no profit is derived from the See also:timber. The See also:principal See also:rivers are the Subanarekha and the See also:North and See also:South Koel.

In 1901 the See also:

population was 1,187,925, showing an increase of 5.2% in the See also:decade. Christians See also:form to% of the See also:total. The district was affected by the See also:famine of 1896–1897, and still more severely by that of 190o. Rice is everywhere the See also:staple See also:crop, with some millets and pulses. See also:Tea cultivation has been introduced, but does not flourish. The only See also:industry on a large See also:scale is themanufacture of shellac. Myrobalans are also exported. See also:Iron and soapstone are worked in small quantities. Hopes of profitable See also:gold-See also:mining in the See also:quartz See also:veins of the schist formation have proved abortive. There is no railway in the district, though surveys have been made to connect with the Bengal-Nagpur See also:line. See F. B.

See also:

Bradley-Birt, Chota Nagpur (1903).

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