JAORA  , a native

state of Central India, in the Malwa agency . It consists of two isolated tracts, between Ratlam and Neemuch . Area,' with the dependencies of Piplauda and Pant Piplauda, 568 sq. m . Pop . (1901), 84,202 . The estimated revenue is 57,000; tribute, 9000 . The chief, whose title is nawab, is a Mahommedan of Afghan descent . The state was confirmed by the British government in 1818 by the Treaty of Mandsaur . Nawab Mahommed Ismail, who died in 1895, was an honorary major in the British army . His son, Iftikhar Ali Khan, a minor at his accession, was educated in the Daly College at Indore, with a British officer for his tutor, and received powers of administration in 1906 . The chief crops are millets, cotton, maize and poppy . The last supplies a large part of the Malwa opium of commerce .

The

town of JAORA is on the Rajputana-1VIalwa railway, 20 M . N. of Ratlam . Pop . (1901), 23,854 . It is well laid out, with many good modern buildings, and has a high school and dispensary . To celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the Victoria Institute and a zenana dispensary were opened in 1898 .