BULDANA  , a See also:

• TOWN

town and See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, in See also:

• BERAR

Berar . The town had a See also:

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

population in 1901 of 4137 . The district has an See also:

• AREA

area of 3662 sq. m . The See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern See also:

• PART

part forms a portion of Berar See also:

• BALAGHAT (i.e. " above the ghats or passes," the highlands)

Balaghat or Berar—above the See also:

• GHATS, or GHAUTS (literally " the Landing Stairs " from the sea, or " Passes ")

Ghats . Here the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• CONTOUR

contour of the 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 may be described as a See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession of small plateaus decreasing in See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation to the extreme See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south . Towards the eastern See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the district the country assumes more the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of undulating high lands, favoured with See also:

• SOIL

soil of a See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good quality . A succession of plateaus descends from the highest ridges on the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north to the south, where a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of small ghats See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

march with the See also:

• NIZAM

nizam's territory . The small fertile valleys between the plateaus are watered by streams during the greater portion of the See also:

• YEAR

year, while See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

wells of particularly good and pure See also:

• WATER

water are numerous . These valleys are favourite See also:

• VILLAGE

village sites . The north portion of the district occupies the See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich valley of the Purna . The district is rich in agricultural produce; in a seasonable year a many-coloured See also:

• SHEET

sheet of cultivation, almost without a break, covers the valley of the Purna . In the Balaghat also the crops are very See also:

• FINE

fine .

Situated as the district is in the neighbourhood cf the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market of See also:

• KHAMGAON

Khamgaon, and nearer to Bombay than the other Berar districts, markets for its agricultural produce on favourable terms are easily found . In 1901 the population was 423,616, showing a decrease of 12% in the See also:

• DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade due to the effects of See also:

• FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine . The district was reconstituted, and given an additional area of 853 sq. m. in 1905; the population on the enlarged area in 1901 was 613,756 . The only manufacture is cotton See also:

• CLOTH

cloth . Cotton, See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

wheat and oil-seeds are largely exported . The See also:

• NAGPUR

Nagpur See also:

• LINE

line of the Great See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

Peninsula railway runs through the north of the district . The most important See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade is Malkapur—pop . (1901) 13,112—with several factories for ginning and pressing cotton .