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SAUGOR, or SAGAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAUGOR, or See also:SAGAR , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Jubbulpore See also:division of the Central Provinces. The town, in a picturesque situation on a See also:spur of the Vindhyan hills, 1758 ft. above See also:sea-level, has a station on the See also:Indian See also:Mid-See also:land railway. Pop. (1901) 42,330. It has See also:long ceased to be a growing See also:place, though it it still third in importance in the See also:province. It was founded in 166o, but owes its importance to having been made the See also:capital of the Mahratta See also:governor who established himself here in 1735. The cantonments contain a See also:battery of See also:artillery, a detachment of a See also:European See also:regiment, a native See also:cavalry and a native See also:infantry regiment. The town is handsomely built, and is an See also:emporium of See also:trade. The DISTRICT OF SAUGOR has an See also:area of 3962 sq. m. It is an extensive, elevated and in parts tolerably level See also:plain, broken in places by See also:low hills of the Vindhyan See also:sandstone. It is traversed by numerous streams, See also:chief of which are the Sunar, See also:Beas, Dhasan and Bina, all flowing in a northerly direction towards the valley of the See also:Ganges. In the See also:southern and central parts the See also:soil is See also:black, formed by decaying See also:trap; to the See also:north and See also:east it is a reddish-See also:brown See also:alluvium.

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Iron ore of excellent quality is found and worked at Hirapur, a small See also:village in the extreme north-east. The district contains several densely wooded tracts, the largest of which is the Ramna See also:teak See also:forest preserve in the north. The See also:population in 1901 was 469,479, showing a decrease of 20% in the See also:decade, due to the results of See also:famine. The See also:principal crops are See also:wheat, See also:millet, See also:pulse, oil-seeds and a little See also:cotton. The See also:main See also:line of the Indian Midland railway crosses the district, with a See also:branch from Bina to Katni on the East Indian See also:system. By a treaty concluded with the Mahratta See also:Peshwa in 1818, the greater See also:part of the See also:present district was made over to the British ; and the town 'became the capital of the Saugor and See also:Nerbudda Territories, then attached to the North-western Provinces. During the See also:Mutiny of 1857 the whole district was in the See also:possession of the rebels, excepting the town and fort, in which the Europeans were shut up for eight months, till relieved by See also:Sir See also:Hugh See also:Rose. The rebels were totally defeated and See also:order was again restored by See also:March 1858. See the Saugor District Gazetteer (See also:Allahabad, 1907).

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