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WARDHA , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Nagpur See also:division of the Central Provinces, which take their name from the Wardha See also:river. The town is situated 49 M. S.W. of Nagpur by See also:rail. Pop. (19o1) 9872. It was laid out in 1866, shortly after the district was first constituted. It is an important centre of the See also:cotton See also:trade. The DISTRICT OF WARDIIA has an See also:area of 2428 sq. m. It is hilly in the See also:north, and intersected by spurs from the See also:Satpura range. The central portion includes the three peaks of Malegaon (1726 ft.), See also:Nandgaon (1874 ft.), and Jaitgarh (2086 ft.). From this cluster of hills numerous small streams See also:lead to the Wardha river on the one See also:side, while on the other the Dham, Bor, and Asoda flow down the length of the district in a See also:south-easterly direction. The Wardha, and its affluent the Wanna, are the only See also:rivers of any importance.

To the south the See also:

country spreads out in an undulating See also:plain, intersected by watercourses, and broken here and there by isolated hills rising abruptly from the See also:surface. In See also:general the lowlands are well wooded. Leopards, hyenas, wolves, jackals and See also:wild hog abound in the district; other animals found are the spotted See also:deer, See also:nilgai and See also:antelope. The district is subject to See also:great See also:variations of See also:climate, and the rainfall at Wardha town averages 41 in. In 1901 the See also:population was 385,103, showing a decrease of 4 ,, in the See also:decade. The See also:principal crops are cotton, See also:millet, See also:wheat and oil-seeds. This region supplies the cotton known in the See also:market as See also:Hinganghat. There are cotton-See also:mills at Hinganghat and Palgaon, and many factories for ginning and pressing cotton. The district is traversed by the Nagpur See also:line of the Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway. A See also:branch runs from Wardha town past Hinganghat to the See also:Warora See also:coal-See also:field in the district of See also:Chanda. The See also:history of Wardha forms See also:part of that of Nagpur district, from which it was separated in 1862 for administrative purposes. See Wardha District Gazetteer (See also:Allahabad, 1906).

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