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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 846 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DATIA  , a native

state of Central India, in the
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Bundelkhand agency . It lies in the extreme north-west of Bundelkhand, near
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Gwalior, and is surrounded on all sides by other, states of Central India, except on the east where it meets the
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United Provinces . The state came under the
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British government after the treaty of
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Bassein in 1802 .
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Area, 911 sq. m . Pop . (1901) 173,759 . Estimated revenue, £70,000; tribute to Sindhia paid through the '
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Lat. dactylus,
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finger, hence fruit of the date palm, gave O . Fr. date, mod. datte; distinguish " date," in chronology, from Lat. datum, data, given, used at the beginning of a letter, &c., to show time and place of writing, e.g . Datum Romae . British Government, £1000 . The chief, whose title is maharaja, is a
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Rajput of the Bundela clan, being descended from a younger son of a former chief of Orchha . The state suffered from famine in 1896-1897, and again to a less extent in 1899-1900 .

It is traversed by the

branch of the
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Indian Midland railway from
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Jhansi to Gwalior . The
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town of Datia has a railway station, 16 m. from Jhansi . Pop . (1901) 24,071 . It is surrounded by a stone wall, enclosing handsome palaces, with gardens; the palace of Bir Singh Deo, of the 17th century, is " one of the finest examples of
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Hindu domestic architecture in India " (Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1908) .

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