The Gazetteer of the Central Provinces of IndiaSir Charles Grant Printed at the Education society's Press, Bombay, 1870 - 582 sider |
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aboriginal agricultural Amarkantak Baigás Bakht Buland Bálághát bank Bastar beds Berár Betúl Bhandára Bhonslá Biláspúr district Bráhmans British bungalow Burhánpúr Central Provinces Chándá district Chhattisgarh Chhindwárá chief chiefly chiefship contains cotton crops cultivation Damoh Damoh district Deogarh Deva dynasty east eastern exported feet forest gháts Gond Gondwana head-quarters hills Hindú Hoshangábád India inhabitants Jabalpúr Jabalpur district jungle Kámthí khálsa Khán land revenue Mahánadí Mandla Mandla district manufactured Maráthá Mohammadan Nágpúr nálá Narbadá Narbadá valley Narsinghpúr native Nimár north-east pargana Peshwá Pindhárís plain plateau police population portion principal púr Raghojí Ráípúr district Rájá Rájputs range Ráo Ratanpúr rice river road rocks rupees Ságar Sambalpúr sandstone saráí Sátpurá Seoní Singh Sironchá situated soil souls square miles stream subdivision tahsil táluka tank temple town tract trade trees tribes Upper Godávarí village Waingangá Wardhá wild zamíndárí
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Side lxxxiii - Nermada is not here navigable), and without much inland commerce,2 but under the fostering hand of a race of Gond princes, a numerous people tilled a fertile country, and still preserve, in the neatness of their houses, in the number and magnificence of their temples, their ponds, and other public works, in the size of their towns, and in the frequency of their plantations, the undoubted signs of enviable prosperity.
Side xciv - Pindarries were neither encumbered with tents nor baggage ; each horseman carried a few cakes of bread for his own subsistence, and some feeds of grain for his horse. The party, which usually consisted of two or three thousand good horse, with a proportion of mounted...
Side xl - They conIntertrappean series. . . _ . . . stitute the Intertrappean series of Hislop, and are interesting from their fossil contents, as well as their mineral character and peculiar stratigraphical position. It would be out of place here to enter into any discussion of the various explanations which have been given of these. It must suffice to say that both in their lithological character [calcareous muds] ; in their distribution [local and irregular lenticular masses, not extending laterally to...
Side xciv - Their chief strength lay in their being intangible. If pursued, they made marches of extraordinary length, (sometimes upwards of sixty miles,) by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken, they dispersed, and reassembled at an appointed rendezvous ; if followed to the country from which they issued, they broke into small parties. Their wealth, their booty, and their families, were scattered over a wide region, in which they found protection amid the mountains, and in the fastnesses...
Side 484 - In the early ages a marriage procession was passing through these hills from the west. Hot and thirsty they sought for water but found none, when a strangelooking old man suggested that the bride and bridegroom should join in digging for a spring. Laughingly they consented, and with the removal of a few spadesful of earth a clear fountain leapt to the surface. While all were delightedly drinking, the freed waters rose and spread into a wide lake, overwhelming bride, bridegroom, and procession ; but...
Side xxiv - is not apiece of water with regular banks, " crowned with rows or avenues of trees, with an artificial dyke and " sluices, and with fields around it, but it is an irregular expanse of " water ; its banks are formed by rugged hills, covered with low forests " that fringe the water where the wild beasts repair to drink ; its " dykes, mainly shaped out of spurs from the hills, are thrown athwart " the hollows, a part only being formed by masonry; its sluices often " consist of chasms or fissures in...
Side 13 - Lar repaired to General Doveton's head-quarters to endeavour to procure terms, but in vain, and on the morning of the 9th, a British party took possession of the upper fort, the garrison descending into the town, and grounding their matchlocks in a square of British troops formed for their reception.
Side 60 - Here a tank is not a piece of water, with regular ' banks, crowned with rows or avenues of trees, with an artificial dyke and sluices, ' and with fields around it, but it is an irregular expanse of water ; its banks ' are formed by rugged hills covered with low forests that fringe the water, ' where the wild beasts repair to drink ; its dykes, mainly shaped out of spurs from the hills, are thrown athwart the hollows, a part only being formed by ' masonry ; its sluices often consist of chasms or fissures...
Side xciv - ... neither turning to the right nor left till they arrived at their place of destination. They then divided and made a sweep of all the cattle and property they could find : committing at the same time the most horrid atrocities, and destroying what they could not carry away. They trusted to the secrecy and suddenness of the irruption for avoiding those who guarded the frontiers of the countries they invaded ; and before a force could be brought against them, they were on their return. Their chief...
Side xciv - They trusted to the secrecy and suddenness of the irruption for avoiding the troops who guarded the frontiers of the countries they invaded, and before a force could be brought against them, they were on their return. Their chief strength lay in their being intangible. If pursued they made marches of extraordinary length (sometimes upwards of sixty miles) by roads almost impracticable for regular troops. If overtaken, they dispersed and reassembled at an appointed rendezvous ; if followed to the...