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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 233 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALAGHAT (i.e. " above the See also:ghats or passes," the See also:highlands)  , a See also:district of See also:British See also:India in the See also:Nagpur See also:division of the Central Provinces . The administrative headquarters are at the See also:town of Burha . The district contains an See also:area of 3132 sq. m . It forms the eastern portion of the central See also:plateau which divides the 'T . Steuernagel, Einwanderung der israelitischen Stamm (1901) . See also:province from See also:east to See also:west . These See also:highlands, formerly known as the See also:Raigarh Bichhia See also:tract, remained desolate and neglected until 1866, when the district of See also:Balaghat was formed, and the See also:country opened to the industrious and enterprising peasantry of the See also:Wainganga valley . Geographically the district is divided into three distinct parts :'-(i) The See also:southern lowlands, a slightly undulating See also:plain, comparatively well cultivated and drained by the Wainganga, Bagh, Deo, Ghisri and Son See also:rivers . (2) The See also:long narrow valley known as the Mau Taluka, lying between the hills and the Wainganga See also:river, and comprising a long, narrow, irregular-shaped See also:lowland tract, intersected by See also:hill ranges and peaks covered with dense See also:jungle, and See also:running generally from See also:north to See also:south . (3) The lofty plateau, inwhich is situated the Raigarh Bichhia tract, comprising irregular ranges of hills, broken into numerous valleys, and generally running from east to west . The highest points in the hills of the district are as follows:—Peaks above Lanji, 2300 or 2500 feet; Tepagarh hill,, about 2600 ft . ; and Bhainsaghat range, about 3000 ft. above the See also:sea .

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principal rivers in the district are the Wainganga, and its tributaries, the Bagh, Nahra and Uskal ; a few smaller streams, such as the Masmar, the Mahkara, &c: ; and the Banjar, Halon and Jamunia, tributaries of the See also:Nerbudda, which drain a portion of the upper plateau . In the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century the upper See also:part of the district was an impenetrable See also:waste . About that See also:time one Lachhman See also:Naik established the first villages on the Paraswara plateau . But ' a handsome Buddhist See also:temple of cut See also:stone, belonging to some remote See also:period, is suggestive of a See also:civilization which had disappeared before historic times . The See also:population in See also:tool was 326,521, showing a decrease of 15% in the See also:decade, due to the effects of See also:famine . A large part of the area is still covered with See also:forest, the most valuable See also:timber-See also:tree being sal . There are few See also:good roads . The Gondia-See also:Jubbulpore See also:line of the See also:Bengal-Nagpur railway traverses the Wainganga valley in the west of the district . The district suffered very severely from the famine of 1896-1897 . It suffered again in 1900, when in See also:April the number of persons relieved See also:rose above See also:ioo,000 .

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