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Patna was sub-divided, the name of Tirhut was again officially given to a new division, containing the four districts of Darbhanga, Muzaffarpur, See also:

SARAN

Saran and See also:

CHAMPARAN, or CWJMPARUN

Champaran: See also:

TOTAL

total See also:

AREA

area, 12,588 sq. m.; total pop. (1901), 9,867,373. It is a continuous alluvial See also:

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

plain, traversed by many winding See also:

rivers, and it supports the densest See also:

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

population in all India. It is the See also:

main centre of the See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

indigo See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, conducted by See also:

EUROPEAN

European planters, which is now in a declining See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition. Other crops are See also:

rice, millets, See also:

wheat, See also:

MAIZE, or INDIAN CORN

maize, oilseeds, See also:

SUGAR

sugar-See also:

CANE

cane and See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco. Apart from indigo there are no large See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries. Since the See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine of 1874 the whole 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 has been saved from its former See also:

ISOLATION

isolation by the construction of the See also:

Bengal & North-Western railway, with numerous branches; but the Ganges is nowhere bridged.

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